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This is a book about Janie Crawford—a black woman of “coffee and cream complexion”. It is a story of historical fiction set in Florida during the first three decades of the 1900s. It is about being a black woman. It is about self- discovery and about love. The story reads as one long extended flashback as Janie, in her forties, talks to her best friend Pheoby Watson. We follow Janie from her youth growing up under the care of her beloved nanny on a Florida plantation, to her first husband’s farm
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African-American classic, first published in the 1930s, which tells Janie's story in dazzling Southern prose. Read by Adjoa Andoh. ...more
African-American classic, first published in the 1930s, which tells Janie's story in dazzling Southern prose. Read by Adjoa Andoh. ...more
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