num_pages: 219
description: Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate. Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -no mean feat for a Black woman in the 30's. Zora Neale Hurston's classic 1937 novel follows Janie from her nanny's plantation shack to Logan Killick's farm, to all Black Eatonville, to the Everglades, and back to Eatonville- where she gathers in "the great fish-net" of her life. Janie's quest for identity takes her on a journey during which she learns what love is, experiencess life's joys and sorrows, and comes home to herself in peace.
language: English
title: Their Eyes Were Watching God
titlecomplete: Their Eyes Were Watching God
characters: Leafy, Miss Nellie, Tea Cake, Shelby, Johnny Taylor, Sam Watson, Janie Starks, Jody Starks, Mrs. Sumpkins, Lulu Moss, Mayrella, Nanny, Pheoby Watson, Mis' Washburn, Mr. Washburn, Pearl Stone, Logan Killicks, Eleanor
genres: Classics, Feminism, Historical, African American, Novels, Read For School, School, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 333528
places: Everglades, Florida, Florida
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Audie Award
category: Solo Narration - Female
publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics