Name: We Are Taking Only What We Need: Stories (en Inglés)
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Author: Watts, Stephanie Powell
ISBN: 9780063265134

portada We Are Taking Only What We Need: Stories (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Stephanie Powell Watts

Editorial

Harper Perennial

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

240

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

17.8 x 11.4 x 1.8 cm

Peso

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9780063265134

Categorías

Afroamericanos
Ficción literaria
Historias cortas

We Are Taking Only What We Need: Stories (en Inglés)

Stephanie Powell Watts (Autor) · Harper Perennial · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "We Are Taking Only What We Need: Stories (en Inglés)"

"Lorrie Moore meets Eudora Welty." --The New Yorker"Watts shows us people, real souls like the people we sit next to on the bus, people who live down the hall, people who could be relatives." --Edward P. Jones, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for FictionIn these powerfully rendered, prizewinning stories, working-class African Americans across the South strive for meaning and search for direction in lives shaped by forces beyond their control--now available as a Harper Perennial Olive Edition.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.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? "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. 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.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. With We Are Taking Only What We Need, Stephanie Powell Watts has crafted an incredibly assured and emotionally affecting meditation on everything from the large institutional forces to the small interpersonal moments that impress upon us and direct our lives.This book is part of a special series from Harper Perennial called Olive Editions--exclusive small-format editions of some of our bestselling and celebrated titles, featuring beautiful and unique hand-drawn cover illustrations. All Olive Editions are available for a limited time only.