Florida · 1937 · citedTheir Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Janie Crawford's search for love and a self of her own carries her across Florida through three marriages: from her grandmother's cabin and a loveless farm in the west, to the all-Black town of Eatonville where she is the mayor's silenced wife, to the Everglades 'muck' by Lake Okeechobee where she finds joy with Tea Cake, until the great 1928 hurricane. Hurston roots her landmark of Black American literature in real places she knew, above all the self-governing town of Eatonville and the migrant bean fields of the Glades.
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