A Woman on Her Own, Joyously and Fiercely Independent

Reviewing Zora Neale Hurston’s Classic Novel, ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’

How many copies had I sold? Dozens, easy. Probably a hundred, maybe more. “Do you have Their Eyes Were Watching God?” a high schooler would approach the counter and ask. I worked at the Almost Perfect Bookstore in Roseville, California, and my job was to sort, shelve, and sell books.

This was long before Amazon, and our storeowner was a shrewd businesswo…