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So well written and made me root so hard for Janie to finally find what she’d been looking for.
“Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.”
“Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.”
Harlem Renaissance. The book focuses on the story of Janie Crawford whose sole goal is to find love. Her grandmother arranges for her to marry a local farmer Logan who only wants a coworker. Then she marries Jody, a businessman who only wants her as a trophy wife and basically makes her a slave to their marriage. Then she marries Tea Cake, a man who is younger than she is and is also a gambler. They go to south Florida and get a job picking beans...read more
Truly a testimony to finding love and the lengths we'll go to for love. Tea Cake and Janie had it all. Then they didn't. And yet, their love lived on.
Wow. Such a powerful story and the audiobook narrated by Ruby Dee was a performance nothing short of spectacular.
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