Reading Group Guides

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Under "a blossoming pear tree" in West Florida, sixteen-year-old Janie Mae Crawford dreams of a world that will answer all her questions and waits "for the world to be made." But her grandmother, who has raised her from birth, arranges Janie's marriage to an older local farmer. So begins Janie's journey toward herself and toward the farthest horizon open to her.
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Every Tongue Got to Confess

Storytelling is an essential element of many cultures and held dear by communities whose identities have been formed in extremely difficult circumstances. This has certainly been the trajectory of the rich African-American oral tradition. Hurston's transformation of the spoken into the written, like a lost letter from yesteryear's speakers to today's readers, languished undiscovered for decades.
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