Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

First published 1937 · 231 pages

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About this book

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) is a classic Harlem Renaissance novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston. The novel follows Janie Crawford as she recounts the story of her life as she journeys from a naive teenager to a woman in control of her destiny.

  • African American women
  • Fiction
  • Psychology
  • Self-realization
  • Florida, fiction
  • African americans, fiction
  • Fiction, psychological
  • African american women in literature

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  • Josh80/100

    Their Eyes Were Watching God is the story of Janie Crawford, a light-skinned Black woman born around the turn of the 20th century. As a teenager, Janie is briefly trapped in a dismal arranged marriage to an older farmer. But she meets and marries a charismatic younger man named Joe “Jody” Starks, who takes her to the all-Black town of Eatonville, Florida, where he is elected mayor and establishes…

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