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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston · 1937

219 pages

Janie Crawford tells her friend the story of her life: three marriages, a long search for love and independence, and the storm that changes everything. Set in the Black towns and farms of Florida, the novel follows her from a silent girl to a woman who speaks for herself.

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