From Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale-Hurston:
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come
in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never
out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in
resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of
men."
Book Review: Their Eyes Were Watching God: 1937 novel by a too-long forgotten author who was a pioneer of Black, feminist, American stories. Here, she tells the growing maturity of a Black woman, using Black vernacular dialect that recalls Twain's Huck Finn. A-
After the jump, my full review.