Tell My Horse, Zora Neale Hurston
Tell My Horse, Zora Neale Hurston
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Tell My Horse
Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

Author: Zora Neale Hurston

Narrator: Robin Miles

Unabridged: 9 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Amistad

Published: 12/16/2025

Synopsis

“Strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained . . . an unusual and intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information.”—New York Times Book ReviewBased on Zora Neale Hurston’s personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practices during her visits in the 1930s, this travelogue into a dark world paints a vividly authentic picture of the ceremonies, customs, and superstitions of voodoo.

About Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston wrote four novels (Jonah’s Gourd Vine; Their Eyes Were Watching God; Moses, Man of the Mountains; and Seraph on the Suwanee) and was still working on her fifth novel, The Life of Herod the Great, when she died; three books of folklore (Mules and Men and the posthumously published Go Gator and Muddy the Water and Every Tongue Got to Confess); a work of anthropological research (Tell My Horse); an autobiography (Dust Tracks on a Road); an international bestselling ethnographic work (Barracoon); and over fifty short stories, essays, and plays. She was born in Notasulga, Alabama, grew up in Eatonville, Florida, and lived her last years in Fort Pierce, Florida.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Raymond on February 18, 2023

I would probably have rewritten the title of this book to be Adventures with Zora in Haiti and Jamaica because Zora saw some THINGS in this book. The first two parts cover the "life" part of the subtitle where she goes over societal aspects in Jamaica and then Haiti. Part 3 is the longest section, w......more

Goodreads review by Samuel on May 19, 2020

Review originally posted here: [URL not allowed] Synopsis: Zora Neale Hurston's 1938 memoir Tell My Horse details her experience learning about cultural and spiritual traditions in Jamaica and voodoo (aka voudou, vodoun, or vodun) in Haiti. My Thoughts: As a Haitian-American guy......more

Goodreads review by Vicky on February 01, 2012

Around the World = Haiti Tell My Horse is writer and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston's experiences in Jamaica and Haiti in the 1930s as she documented the voodoo rituals and beliefs practiced in these countries. Hurston also explores the African heritage shared by black Jamaicans, Hatians and Americans......more

Goodreads review by Humphrey on May 29, 2016

My feeling while reading this book was that it was fine, in the most middle-of-the-road sense possible. Is it nifty how Hurston blends personal narrative with personal observation with tales she's been told with un-sourced speculations, making a text that is as much an ethnographic object as it is a......more

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