“Hurston's 1937 novel about Janie Crawford's search for self-determination has been named by Obama as a formative book. It treats a Black woman's inner life with a fullness that was rare in its time and remains a model for the kind of literary attention her own memoir attempts to pay to her younger self.”
“Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 novel was selected during the show's original run and became one of the club's biggest backlist sales stories. Oprah described Janie Crawford's voice as the first time she felt a Black woman's interiority fully on the page.”
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