THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston

Episode 10

A hurricane has hit the Everglades and the lake has breached its banks. When Janie got into trouble escaping the floods, Tea Cake came to her aid but he was bitten by a mad dog. Now safely back home he has become ill and Janie has gone to fetch the doctor.

Read by Adjoa Andoh
Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4

A 1930s African-American classic which tells Janie's story in dazzling Southern prose
This African-American classic was first published in the 1930s and is seen as one of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century. The author, Zora Neale Hurston, grew up in Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated black town in America. Nearly every black woman writer of significance, including Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, acknowledges Zora Neale Hurston as her literary foremother.

"A rigorous, convincing and dazzling piece of prose, as emotionally satisfying as it is impressive." Zadie Smith. Show less