“The sun was gone, but he had left his footprints in the sky.”A masterpiece. Zora Neale Hurston does the impossible, she perfectly combines beautiful poetic prose with the Southern black slang of the 30’. The result swept me of my feet and transported me in the middle of an all in-love story. Imperfect, passionate, sometimes violent but it was impossible to look somewhere else because of its beauty. The narrator was perfect and it made me feel the atmosphere of the place and time. I finally read...

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I Mean...What Can I Say?So sad such a talented person has to die indigent. Zora Neal Hurston, born 1891, died in abject poverty in 1960.Although l have read this book several times, each time l read it, l see a different story that she is trying to tell.Unfortunately, though many people don’t want to admit it, the relationship between black men and black women is still the same.Although Janie doesn’t stand up for herself, and fight back, thankfully, black women today are fighting back.I don’t kn...

Two things:1) This is deserving of the one-of-the-great-classics-of-the-20th-century title.2) Every book should be large print.To elaborate on both:This is a beautifully written, brilliantly characterized, and consuming read. I tend to hate historical fiction, but when it's done like this I love it completely.Equally significantly, I accidentally bought the large-print version of this book, and now I want to do that forever.Those are my two PSAs.Bottom line: Read this book, and give large print ...

Janie saw her life like a giant tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches. I've spent many years wanting to read this book, but also not wanting to read it because the title made me think it was going to be heavy on religion, which is something I generally avoid in books. It's not, though. It's a wonderful, lyrical tale of a woman's life and search for independence.Now I'm fascinated by interpretations of the title because...

I have mixed feelings on this book. On one hand I loved the writing style and I loved the main character and following her journey through life's struggles. On the other hand it was slow moving, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I felt things could've been cut to keep the story moving better. I understand why this is such a well loved classic, but I didn't love it as much as I'd hoped to! :(

I read this masterpiece for the first time in high school. The love story of Janie and Tea Cake is one of stupendous beauty. Zora Neal Hurston's text is a treasure:"So she went on thinking in soft, easy phrases while all around the house, the night time put on flesh and blackness."Early in life, Janie is taken care of by her grandmother Nanny,"Every tear you drop squeezes a cup uh blood outa mah heart"As she grew, "Janie waited for a bloom time, a green time and an orange time."She is married of...

A story as melancholic for its relationship to the writer's own life/destiny as another Southern masterpiece "Confederacy of Dunces." I cannot imagine that this isn't Toni Morrison's true foundations of prose--the beauty of which borders on the sublime. The modernism of "Their Eyes" lies in the intermixing of 1930's black vernacular with poetic lines which themselves carry astute and precise craft--this is outstanding. Lightning in a bottle--that's what this book reads like.I love to choose side...

”Dey gointuh make ‘miration ‘cause mah love didn’t work lak they love, if dey ever had any. Then you must tell ‘em dat love ain’t somethin’ lak uh grindstone dat’s de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.”Janie Crawford knows about love. She knows how life is with it and she knows how life is without it. She had three marriages...

‘There are years that ask questions and years that answer.’When so much in life is busy talking over or silencing others, finding your voice and having it heard is important to securing your place and being valued. This was something Zora Neale Hurston understood in her own life and her masterpiece work, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is the life narrative of her protagonist, Janie, chasing her horizon and finding her voice as a Black woman in a world dominated by men and gatekept by white people...