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Book Description:

When Janie returns to Eatonville, the whole town seems to turn out to watch her walk down the street by herself and up to her own house. She had disappeared some years before, with a young man named Tea Cake. The townspeople wonder why he has not returned with her. In fact, the town is viciously curious, but only Phoebe Watson cares enough about Janie to go and visit her, bringing some dinner and lending a friendly ear. Janie decides to tell her friend Phoebe the whole story of her life. More... (© PinkMonkey)

Booknotes about Their Eyes Were Watching God:

• PinkMonkey® Literature Note by Diane Sauder
  http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmTheirEyes01.asp
  
  
• SparkNote by Selena Ward
  http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/eyes/
  
  
• Gale Group - for teachers who are subscribed to the Gale Group online service there is an excellent overview of Their Eyes Were Watching God on their "DISCovering Authors" database. Go to Gale Group > Discovering Collection > Literature Search > Title Search. Type in 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' and the booknotes will appear. There are also essays and biographies of the author.
  
  Source Citation: "Their Eyes Were Watching God," in Novels for Students, Vol. 3, Gale Research, 1998. DISCovering Authors. Gale Group, 1999. Reproduced in Discovering Collection. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. December, 2000. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/DC/

Review:

• "The world in a jug and the stopper in (her) hand": 'Their Eyes' as blues performance by Maria V. Johnson
  http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2838/n3_v32/21232161/p1/article.jhtml (FindArticles.com; © African American Review)
  
  
• "Love me like I like to be": the sexual politics of Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' the classic blues and the Black Women's Club movement by Carol Batker
  http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2838/n2_v32/21059951/p1/article.jhtml (FindArticles.com; © African American Review)
  
  
• Liberation and Domination: Their Eyes Were Watching God and the Evolution of Capitalism by Todd Mcgowan
  http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2278/1_24/58411666/p1/article.jhtml (FindArticles.com; © MELUS, The Society for the Study of the Multi- Ethnic Literature of the United States)