Their Eyes Were Watching GodNow, women forget all those things they don't want to remember and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. When, at sixteen, Janie is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreamswho offers not diamonds, but a packet of flowering seeds. Rediscovered and championed by Alice Walker in