"A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates
the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for
those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly." --Zadie Smith
One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century,
Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with
the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out
of print for almost thirty years--due largely to initial audiences'
rejection of its strong black female protagonist--Hurston's classic has
since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly
acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature.