October Books 5) Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston

[nwhyte]

I found this a fascinating novel. The protagonist, Janie, is a black woman growing up in rural Florida some time around the late nineteenth / early twentieth century; Hurston tells us the story of her childhood, her three marriages, natural disaster, and trial for murder. A lot of the book - the first chapter, which frames the rest of the story

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[frumiousb]

One of my favorite novels. She's a wonderful writer.

[treize64]

One of the few required readings in high school that I ended up re-reading afterwards.