Novel Synopsis

by Krystal Wright

This novel begins with Janie returning to Eatonville, after being gone for a long time. I friend of hers wants to know where she has been and what she has been doing, so Janie tells her. Her story begins when she is sixteen and her grandmother wants her married off, so someone can take care of her. Janie not wanting to be married, goes along with it anyway and marrys Logan Killicks, a local farmer. One day a man named Joe starks comes along and tells Janie his great plans, and because she does not love Logan, Janie runs away with Joe Starks. Joe becomes mayor of an all African-American town, but as time goes on Janie and Joe start to separate and she doesn’t love him anymore. After some time, Joe dies and Janie is all alone. But then one day a new man walks into her life, a man named Tea Cake. She ends up falling in love with him and moving to the Everglades. There Janie and Tea Cake live a happy life and work in the fields. After some time there, a hurricane strikes. Many of the workers die, but Janie and Tea Cake make it out alive. This novel ends with Tea Cake getting rabies and Janie having to shoot him in self defense.