by African American author Zora Neale Hurston (one of my favorite female authors)
"He drifted off into sleep and Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from it's hiding place."
"To Janie's strange eyes, everything in the Everglades was big and new. Big Lake Okechobee, big beans, big cane, big weeds, big everything. Weeds that did well to grow waist high up the state were eight and often ten feet tall down there. Ground so rich that everything went wild. Volunteer cane just taking down the place. Dirt roads so rich and black that a half mile of it would have fertilized a Kansas wheat field. Wild cane on either side of the road hiding the rest of the world.
People wild too."
This novel was made into a movie staring Halle Berry. It's available on DVD, and it's an underrated movie to say the least. Zora Neale Hurston was a huge star in her own day, living among the Harlem Rennaisance and writing and dancing among the finest writers and composers of her day in the 1920' and 1930's. It's good to discover parts of American Literature that are not always a part of some student's normal cannon. It was a part of mine, due to excellent high school teachers and college literature professors.
Share the wealth, read this passionate novel, and watch the film.
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