We Are Taking Only What We Need: Stories Watts Stephanie Powell
"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."…
Specifikacia We Are Taking Only What We Need: Stories Watts Stephanie Powell
"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