Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937): In her most celebrated novel, Zora Neale Hurston follows Janie Crawford’s journey from voiceless girlhood to self‑possessed womanhood—guided by three marriages that test love, authority, and autonomy. Set in early‑twentieth‑century Florida and rendered in lyric Black vernacular, the story blossoms beneath a pear tree and culminates in Janie claiming her own voice amid loss and gossip. A timeless meditation on identity, resilience, and the search for fulfillment in Black womanhood.