April's Middletown Book for Discussion: Their Eyes Were Watching God (Apr. 26)

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, April 26.  Our title is Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.  Here is a brief summary of this tale of a thrice-married woman in Florida:

"This luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years. This poetic, graceful love story, rooted in Black folk traditions and steeped in mythic realism, celebrates boldly and brilliantly African-American culture and heritage. And in a powerful, mesmerizing narrative, it pays quiet tribute to a Black woman who, though constricted by the times, still demanded to be heard."  

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  However, our statewide delivery service is interrupted during the month of April, so only in-person travel to OhioLINK or SearchOhio libraries would be a possibility to find the book at those locations.
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook available, and Bookshop.org has links to purchase the title from independent booksellers.

Our group is always finding interesting titles to share, and we look forward to the new things you'll bring to the table.  

We will meet at 12 pm on the 26th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

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Please come along to our discussion to share what you've been reading/watching/listening to/experiencing!

If you're looking for something interesting to read, check out our page of past and future reads at http://www.mid.miamioh.edu/library/bookdiscussion.htm

"Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Sharon Gerald is marked with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.