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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

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As far as Their Eyes Were Watching God and why I read it, how I found about it in college in an African American literature course. It's kind of a coming-of-age story for this woman named Janie, and it kind of follows her romantic life and the trials and tribulations she has in trying to find herself and find the right match. I think any reader who kind of likes, is interested in coming of age stories and seeing a woman's path to greater self-discovery and self-expression would be interested in it. I guess the only struggle with the writing was that a lot of the dialog was written in the vernacular, kind of colloquialisms of the South. So sometimes you have to adjust your ear, if you will, to kind of get into the flow of the dialog. But it's a good read. It's got a lot of vivid passages; it's very moving in a lot of ways. It kind of touches on a spiritual aspect to life. As far as how many stars I'd give the book out of five, I'd say between four and 4 -- because it's such a great work of art.