"Luck is a Fortune": A newspaper review of the first edition of Their Eyes Were Watching God

"Luck is a Fortune": A newspaper review of the first edition of Their Eyes Were Watching God

A plot summary and commentary on the events and characters of Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God 

These pages from the October 16th, 1937 issue of The Nation newspaper gives a brief summary of and commentary on the first publishing of Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. The text addresses the progression of the plot, particularly relevant or memorable quotes from the novel, and Hurston's percieved strengths and weaknesses as a writer. The end of the review muses on the ways in which the novel reflects or does not reflect the reality of African American lives in the United States. 

Sterling A Brown

The Gaines Center; University of Louisiana at Lafayette

October 16, 1937

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Newspaper review or opinion column

This article appears from pages 409 to 410 in the October 16, 1937 issue of The Nation.