Novel set in rural Lincolnshire
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Location(s): Everglades
Genre(s): Historical
Era(s): 1928
Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the story of Janie, an African-American woman who was raised by her ex-slave grandmother, and who wanted life and living, not riches and sitting idle on a porch. It is a deeply moving novel about love and what makes it real, about damning the “shoulds,” and about how everyone needs something different in life to make them feel alive. Janie was happier wearing overalls and picking beans in the Everglades muck with her third husband, Tea Cake, than she had ever been wearing proper clothing and sitting on the porch, forbidden from the men’s talk and men’s games.
This novel shows what it is like to feel deadened by what everyone else thinks should be, and feeling alive by doing all the things others warn against. Janie is earthy and real; she doesn’t care about being elevated. She wants to romp and play. She wants to live.
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