Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God (2006)

One of my all-time favorite novels. Most of all, I fell in love with the language in this book.There's not really any way to spoil this novel, as so much is revealed in the first chapter. And, this book is driven by its characters and its language, rather than plot.Their Eyes Were Watching God de...

Jonah's Gourd Vine (1990)

Dust Tracks on a Road (2006)

Will add more quotes when I reread. For now, here are quotes from Written By Herself.I think this book is the best of all Hurston's works that I've read, and shows her strengths as a writer and storyteller.p. 36"In the classroom I got along splendidly. The only difficulty was that I was rated as ...