"Their Eyes Were Watching God" is what I found.
The key details are the amount of hours working per week
Jason Blake is an autistic 12 year old living in a Neurotypical world. Mostly, almost everything goes wrong for him. Jason finds PhoenixBird, who has the same interests as Jason.
Gawain wears the green girdle as a symbol of his weakness - he failed to finish what was asked of him, and he started wearing the girdle to show his failure.