Literary Fiction· United States
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale HurstonAggregate Editorial Score46/100
TIME 100 Best Novels
Published 1937231 pagesEnglish
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Published in 1937, Their Eyes Were Watching God established Zora Neale Hurston as one of the defining voices in literary fiction. Janie Crawford, a Black woman in the Deep South, tells her story to a friend—three marriages, several communities, and a hurricane—in Hurston's lyrical masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance. Long overlooked, it was championed by Alice Walker and is now considered one of the great American novels. Themes of Black womanhood, love, freedom run through the work. The book has received recognition from TIME 100 Best Novels 1937.
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