Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Why we chose it
Janie Crawford sits on her porch in Eatonville and tells her best friend Pheoby the story of her life: three marriages, one great love, and the voice she finds along the way. It came out in 1937 and it still reads fresh. If you read it in school, read it again. It is a different book when you are grown.
— Rod
"A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly."--Zadie Smith
One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years--due largely to initial audiences' rejection of its strong black female protagonist--Hurston's classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature.
- Publisher
- Amistad Press
- Published
- 2006
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN
- 9780060838676
- Collections
- Fiction Favorites, Banned & Challenged