Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Review written by a cozy specialist (May 2020): A classic must be read in the same room as a candle whose smell pulls on your heart strings. Zora will then only enter it to transform you from the inside out.

“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.”