Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel
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Honest and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person — no mean feat for a black woman in the ’30s. Janie’s quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.
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The only speedbump in this maddeningly addictive read is Hurston’s rendering of dialect, spelled just as it’s pronounced. Once you acclimate, and once you know that her writing was based on her astounding literary work as a folklorist and anthropologist, it only takes a few pages before you realize that you’re in the hands of a master. The hundreds of people who have taken the time to review this book testify to its impact–once you’re done with it, it evokes a compulsion to share the experience.
The brilliance of the book is only enhanced by its brevity. You can easily read it in a sitting, although you’ll find yourself lingering on some of the pages as you turn over the expressiveness and gorgeous language axiom by axiom. So many reviewers have summed up the tale’s plot, I’ll place that description to a single line: gorgeous like tale, crafted by genius.
“Their Eyes Were Watching God” is incredible when read as the resurrection of a woman’s spirit, and just as incredible when read as the resurrection of a tremendous writer from the South. The hard ending of the like tale and the irony of its demise at the fangs of a mad dog are a tragic parallel to the end of Hurston’s own life, a literary genius educated at Barnard who died on the breadline and ancient, effective as a maid in Florida.
Alice Walker was so influenced by Hurston that she searched out her frail grave and marked it with a headstone, from one fantastic writer to another it says: Zora Neale Hurston, Genius of the South, Novelist Folklorist Anthropologist, 1891-1960.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5