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The Novel I Found Twenty Years Late and Cannot Forgive Myself For
I was 34 when I first read Zora Neale Hurston and the feeling I had when I finished Their Eyes Were Watching God was grief about the years I had not been reading it. The novel is about Janie Crawford, a Black woman in early twentieth-century Florida who lives three marriages and refuses to let any of them define her. Hurston's prose is unlike anything else in American literature: specific, lyrical, and written in the dialect of the people it is about with complete respect for that language.


:NOW
Thinking about why I waited so long to read this

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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.


:JOURNEY
Reading Their Eyes Were Watching God
4 World established
5 Silencing marriage
5 Complicated love
5 Assertion of self

:POLL
How old were you when you first read Their Eyes Were Watching God?
Teenage years
Early twenties
Late twenties or thirties
I have not read it yet