In a novel set in this state, a character is beat up after asking two boys to return candy stolen from Mr. Marconi’s Tobacco and Cigars. The highly abusive real-life Dozier School was fictionalized in a novel set in this state by Colson Whitehead. In a different novel set in this state, the protagonist remarks that “the business of the head rag irked her endlessly” after her husband forbids her from showing her hair in public. The protagonist of a novel set in this state has a vision of her future husband desecrating a pear tree after she is caught kissing Johnny Taylor. In a novel set in this state, Tea Cake is shot after being bitten by a rabid dog during the Okeechobee hurricane. For 10 points, name this state where Janie Crawford tells her story in its town of Eatonville, the setting of Their Eyes Were Watching God. ■END■
ANSWER: Florida [or FL] (The Whitehead novel is The Nickel Boys.)
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