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Jun 06, 2018Ghettostone rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
There Eyes Are Watching God, by Zora Neal Hurston a historical master work! It been years since reading it but the story lingers in my mind. A romance coming of age story of a young girl who becomes a woman through the post Reconstructionist segregated South in the Black Experience. As a young girl, the main character is charmed by a well dress, worldly traveler, with huge ambition and a plan for success, with whom she runs away and later marries. Life is grand as good fortune and security take hold in their sleepy small town, as they become the statues quo of middle classes values. But like all great stories a series of tragic events interrupt their upwardly mobile life styles, For example a horse dies in the middle of the street and lingers decomposing a sign of things to come. Secondly, she is still young and very attractive, and he seems much older, preoccupied with work and physically less appealing as time passes quickly. Then throw a mysterious younger man in the mix, who is talented and has all the small town girls swooning and you've got bad mixture. The handsome younger man begins hanging around the couple's store and does adds a certain amount of excitement to both their lives, but drama and tension begin to mount. "Their Eyes Are Watching God"does have some action adventure and strange twists with the two young people becoming lovers, venturing off, and living in the woods eventually becoming loggers in a great forest. You will have to see what happens next, but its enough to create a special effects movie version starring Hailey Berry and Terrence Howard, produced by Oprah Winfrey! One of the truly great novels features a female protagonist and narrative insights by her. A must read... Ghettostone Publications Group Highly Recommends This One! Leader of the Best Sellers Book Club was unanimously in favor of this title as a must read! For all the book lovers enjoy this summer classic... please like us @ghettostone/facebook