Houston Public Library invites all Houstonians to join together to read Zora Neale Hurston for the annual Books on the Bayou Program. Books on the Bayou brings together Houstonians to read the same book at the same time, provoking discussion among co-workers, friends, families and classrooms. The program cultivates a culture of reading in Houston by encouraging people to visit libraries, bookstores, community centers, homes, churches, and schools to discuss the featured book. This year's title is Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Forced to marry for money at sixteen, Janie Crawford at first believes that love automatically comes with marriage. Unable to endure her mule-like servitude and the desecration of her dreams, she spontaneously leaves her husband for handsome, ambitious Joe Starks, and after enduring a mostly joyless twenty-year marriage to him, Janie finally meets a young, uneducated wastrel named Tea Cake. With him she thinks she can find genuine love for the first time, but fate intervenes, and Janie fears she may have to choose between his safety and her own.
Saturday, October 31 | 2 PM
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