Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston, 1937
Janie's grandmother wants her settled; Janie wants to be in love. A novel in the sound of Florida speech, about a woman deciding her own life.
Zora Neale Hurston
Hurston trained as an anthropologist under Franz Boas and drove the rural South collecting Black folklore; she wrote this novel in seven weeks while in Haiti.
Feels like longing, love and awe.
What the horizon does to a wish, depending on who is watching.
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly. Books by Zora Neale Hurston
Authors with a similar feel
Read pages from books like this, one at a time
BookFeed is a feed of real passages from real books. It learns what moves you and finds your next book.
Open BookFeedFree, no sign-up.