Rebecca and Jeff dive into Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God, a story about the search for love, freedom, and self-determination. They talk about what makes Hurston's writing so transcendent, why the novel was nearly forgotten, and how it found its rightful place in the American canon.

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