Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Beautiful, amazing book. As much as I like to read I think it’s hard to find real fiction that truly speaks to humanity, to our souls, through space and time. This book does that and more.
The story talks of Janie in the late 1800’s, early 1900’s. She is a young black woman, only 17, and terribly romantic. But her grandmother forces her to face reality by marrying her to a very old man.
The story shows how Janie fights to find herself through three different marriages, and also alone.
Through the whole thing Hurston shows amazing insight into what relationships are like even today, and how they were like back in the day. Not only between man and women, but also between races and between the same sex. (It’s kind of sad to see that the way women behaved back then is also the way they behave now. It’s just modernized.)
Hurston’s narrative is beautiful, and very poetic. They way she changes between the dialect of the Southerners and the narrative is clever and fantastically done.

This is a must-read book. I didn’t go into much of the plot because the book is such a pleasure to read that I believe the plot should be discovered while the person reads the book.