This is one of those books that you read because it’s a classic, so you read it to say that you have. I have to say, I knew nothing about the book going in, and was just basing my thoughts on the title of the book. That was the wrong way to go about things. The title has nothing to do with the book until close to the end. Before that, it’s just the life of Janie Crawford through her marriages.
While I feel like it took all three marriages for Janie to figure out who she was and come into her own, I really feel like the first husband was dealt a bad hand and wasn’t treated right. That marriage was the only one that was sort of just there.
I really don’t know how to talk about this book without giving some sort of spoiler, so I think I will just say that I feel that it is a classic worth the read. I would recommend reading it rather than listening to the audiobook if you have trouble understanding dialects. Because this takes place in the south in the ’30s, there is racism, and a whole conversation that had me shocked. I’m sure the author, a black woman herself, heard things just as bad in her life.
Warnings: Spousal abuse, racism
The Furious Reader 