EAN: 9780593185940

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Longlisted for the National Book AwardAn extraordinary and unforgettable short story collection about community home betrayal and forgiveness from a writer whose spellbinding buoyant * storytelling will break your heart as it tends to the wounds. *Texas Monthly In Holler Child s eleven brilliant stories LaToya Watkins presses at the bruises of guilt love and circumstance. Each story introduces us to a character irrevocably shaped by place and reaching toward something hope reconciliation freedom. In Cutting Horse the appearance of a horse in a man s suburban backyard places a former horse breeder in trouble with the police. In Holler Child a mother is forced into an impossible position when her son gets in a kind of trouble she knows too well from the other side. And Time After shows us the unshakable bonds of family as a sister journeys to find her estranged brother the one who saved her many times over. Throughout Holler Child we see love lost and gained and grief turned to hope. Much like LaToya Watkins s acclaimed debut novel Perish this collection peers deeply into lives of women and men experiencing intimate and magnificent reckonings exploring how race power and inequality map on the individual and demonstrating the mythic proportions of everyday life.

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