Still Got That On The Shelf: Books Every Black Girl Read Back In The Day
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Clarke Gail Baines
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Unlike The Color Purple, the movie based on this book was not the beez-neez, but the book is. And as June Jordan once put it, it’s “the most successful, convincing, and exemplary novel of Blacklove that we have. Period.” And it just might be true. The stories of failed and found love (and eventual killing of that love) of Janie Crawford are truly compelling, and it is a book that has continued to inspire some of our favorite writers of present, including the absolutely amazing Zadie Smith.
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