Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God was published in 1937. It is regarded as a Harlem Renaissance classic and Hurston's most well-known work. Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny" is the focus of the novel.

Because of its readers' initial rejection of its strong, Black, female protagonist, Their Eyes Were Watching God was out of print for nearly 30 years. Janie Crawford is sixteen years old when her grandmother discovers her kissing a shiftless boy and marries her off to an old man who owns sixty acres. Janie's quest for independence leads her through three marriages and a journey back to her roots. When Hurston's classic was reissued in 1978, it became one of the most highly acclaimed and widely read novels in African American literature. It was rigorous, dazzling, and emotionally satisfying.

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