Their Eyes Were Watching God

who was janies father?

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Janie never knew her father or mother. She’d been raised all her life in West Florida by her grandmother, who she calls "Nanny," along with four white children in the Washburn household.

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Janie's father was a teacher that taught Janie's mother. He raped Janie's mother when she was 17. 

 

 

 

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