This was a book assigned by my very liberal English 102 teacher. This book is all about incest, child abuse, and racial posturing. I found it to be a very offensive book, especially when you consider that it was assigned to a bunch of impressionable freshmen college students.
The Bluest Eye is the second most repulsive thing I have ever read (the first is a Faulkner short story). I couldn't finish it -- didn't want to. Stopped reading once it became clear that incest was happening or about to. That's not my idea of entertainment.