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Book Review of Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate. Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person no mean feat for a Black woman in the 30's. Zora Neale Hurston's classic 1937 novel follows Janie from her nanny's plantation shack to Logan Killick's farm, to all-Black Eatonville-where she gathers in"the great fish net" of her life. Janie's quest for identity takes her on a journey during which she learns what love is, experiences life's joys and sorrows, and comes home to herself in peace.