MashReads Podcast: Why 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' should be on your reading list right now

Sometimes the best way to understand the present is to look at the past.
Or at least that's true with Zora Neale Hurston's classic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. The book was written 80 years ago, but the commentary it makes on race and feminism feels as fresh and contemporary as anything published today.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the story of Janie Crawford, a southern woman living in Florida in the early 19