Mr. and Mrs. Washburn's property provides the setting for the protagonist's early life in this novel.  
Mr. and Mrs. Washburn's property provides the setting for the protagonist's early life in this novel.  The main character's grandmother tries to fix her up with an older man named Logan Killicks, but she has none of it and runs off with the eventual postmaster and mayor of Eatonville.  After two decades of marriage, Jody dies and the heroine runs off to Jacksonville with Tea Cake.  After he is bitten by a mad dog, she has to shoot him and returns to Eatonville.  There, Phoeby talks Janie Crawford into telling her story.  For ten points, name this novel by Zora Neale Hurston.
Mr. and Mrs. Washburn's property provides the setting for the protagonist's early life in this novel.  
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