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If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. Startling, intimate, and prescient on their own, these stories build to a kaleidoscopic understanding of both the individual and the collective Black experience over the last fifty years in the American South.This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. And in the collection’s title story, a young girl experiences loss for the first time in the fallout from her father’s relationship with her babysitter.
“If You Hit Randall County, You’ve Gone Too Far” tells of a family trying to make it through a tense celebratory dinner for a son just out on bail. In “Highway 18” a young Jehovah’s Witness going door to door with an expert field-service partner from up north is at a crossroads: will she go to college or continue to serve the church? The ten stories in this resonant collection deal with both the ties that bind and the gulf that separates generations, from children confronting the fallibility of their own parents for the first time to adults finding themselves forced to start over again and again. Her short fiction has been included in two volumes of the Best New Stories from the South anthology and honored with a Pushcart Prize. And in 2013, she was named one of the Best Summer Reads by O: The Oprah Magazine.
Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for her debut story collection, We Are Taking Only What We Need. She now lives with her husband and son in Pennsylvania where she is an associate professor of English at Lehigh University. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and her PhD from the University of Missouri. Wattss opening story, Family Museum of the Ancient Postcards, describes. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for her debut story collection, WE ARE TAKING ONLY WHAT WE NEED (2012). Stephanie Powell Watts was born and raised in Lenoir, North Carolina. Stephanie Powell Wattss debut story collection, We Are Taking Only Wlxat We. Well, if you are waiting for a new book from your favorite author, give Stephanie Powell Watts books a try, you won’t be disappointed. As reading is fundamental, so is reading a good author, or better yet a great author. Thanks to our presenting sponsor Audible. If you are a homebody then you know there is nothing like a good book, a glass of wine and a comfortable spot to get things poppin’. Copyright 2011 by Stephanie Powell Watts, used by permission of Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
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