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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

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Nov 28, 2017 Maryam rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, classics, read-harder-challanege-2017

Read for Read Harder Challenge's Task #17: Read a classic by an author of color.

Zora Neale Hurston, photo by Carl Van Vechten (1938)

To know and understand this book better let’s hear about the writer. Zola Neale Hurston is an African-American writer born in Alabama which spent most of her life in Florida. She did lots of anthropological research and used her research’s results in her stories later. Her work wasn’t recognized until much later after her death and then many critics have praised her work.

When she died she was buried in an un marked ...more

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Jan 05, 2017 Jennifer rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, owned, fiction, bookslut-100-books

HOW DID IT TAKE ME SO LONG TO READ THIS BOOK IT WAS WONDERFUL.

I was surprised by this book's capacity for joy. After being stuck in bad situation after bad situation, Janie suddenly runs out of fucks to give and decides to be happy -- no matter what anyone else thinks. She is a hero for our generation.

I had forgotten until I got there that I already knew the ending from other books that had discussed it. In fact, it kind of blew me away how vividly those scenes already existed in my mind - as I' ...more

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Mar 27, 2008 Rae rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics

A 1937 classic of black literature. Janie Crawford finds fulfillment and self-realization after two unhappy marriages (one violent and one for adornment only). She finally marries Tea Cake, who treats her in a loving manner. The book is written in authentic black dialect and includes a bibliography of works about Hurston. Alice Walker was instrumental in reviving this author's works. ...more

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Aug 22, 2011 Dina rated it it was amazing

Shelves: previously-read, read-for-college

I loved this book. One of the best I've read in Southern lit. so far. I can't wait to read some of her other books.

I loved it again after re-reading it. ...more

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