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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

Start date: May 1, 2013

Finish date: May 31, 2013

Why we're reading this: Their Eyes Were Watching God, you get to meet one of the greatest philosophers of love: Janie Crawford. T…more
[close] Their Eyes Were Watching God, you get to meet one of the greatest philosophers of love: Janie Crawford. The God in the title refers to these divine forces throughout the world, both beautiful and threatening, that Janie encounters. Her quest is a spiritual one because her ultimate goal is to find her place in the world, understand who she is, and be at peace with her environment.

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Apr 28, 2013 Ann rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-2015, audio, audio-2015

Beautiful prose and the narration by Ruby Dee was a huge part of my enjoyment of this vivid timeless story. The voice of the main character reveals deeply complex yet universal stories of hope and despair, oppression and danger and just plain living, life with pain and joy intermixed. We take up with Janie not so long after the Civil War initially as a young girl of sixteen; and through the journey we take with her, along the hard dusty roads of South Florida, the story takes us very far indeed, ...more

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Jun 02, 2009 Karen Nelson rated it it was amazing

I love this book for the dialect of the people and for the bravery of Zora to create one of the first feminist. Any married woman can identify with Janie. I think about her and her Teacake often - ever since I got my own Teacake!! I read and reread this book often, too.

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