"Their Eyes Were Watching God is mainly -- you could call it a lover story -- but it's also a story of female empowerment, and it just traces the life of one woman as she moved through different places and different husbands and has to confront different social conventions in the south.
I think that a lot of the themes in it are pretty universal. I can relate to the main character in some sense, just that she's searching for some things a lot of people search for like a partner and relationships that are gonna be fulfilling, and she wants to relate well to the world and communicate with people and just kind of find her place in the world. But in terms of things that she had to go through like being a black woman in the south, that's obviously different than what I've experienced growing up in California.
It took me a second to get used to some of the ways the language shifts from pretty abstract, poetic sentences to the dialect; and I was confused maybe a little bit by the different voices in the book. Some people might be frustrated by the dialect if they don't like reading things that are written in a dialect, but other than that I'd recommend it pretty highly.
I was totally intrigued by the end because there was a plot twist that I didn't expect at all, and there was this huge sort of -- there was a huge event. I don't want to give it away, but there's a huge event in the book that sort of parallels a huge swell of emotion in what's going on with the characters, and you're just absolutely riveted by it. I would give it five out of five stars."
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