"Their Eyes Were Watching God", Zora Neale Hurston.

In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston shows how
the lives of American women changed in the early 20th century. Zora Neale
Hurston creates a character in her own likeness in her masterpiece, Their Eyes
Were Watching God. By presenting Janie's search for identity, from her
childbirth with Nanny to the death of Tea Cake, Hurston shows what a free
southern black women might have experienced in the early decades of the century.
To the racial ties that would affect Janie all the way through this life long
search.
Janie's search for identity actually started long before…