Naleighna Kai's Literary Cafe Magazine January 2018 New Year, New You | Page 29

Considered one of the best 100 novels written in the English
language since 1923 by Time magazine, Their Eyes Were Watching
God is about the life of Janie Crawford, an African-American
woman in Florida during the early part of the 20th century. Wafting
and anecdotal, the novel delt with Janie’s struggles with love and
disconnect between the restricted role of women were expected
to play in society and the increasing opportunities and freedoms
available African-American women brave enough to seize them.
A sort of coming of age novel, if you will, except the coming of age
takes place over her entire difficult life, not just one weekend alone
in her parent’s house in the suburbs.
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