WebLaToya Watkins was born in Texas. Her writing has appeared in A Public Space, The Sun, Kweli Journal, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Kenyon Review, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and elsewhere. WebNote - Your default password is the last 4 numbers of your library card. If you have trouble logging in stop by the Information Desk or call 817-952-2350 for assistance.

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WebBrowse, borrow, and enjoy titles from the CW MARS digital collection. WebFrom a stunning new voice comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, exploring the effects of inherited trauma and intergenerational violence as the family comes together to say goodbye to their matriarch on her deathbed. jehle gruppe

Perish — LaToya Watkins

Web"Watkins’s prose is effortless and forthright. . .This is an impressive feat of storytelling. . .It’s a difficult read and a tender story of silences and secrets. It’s a novel about coming home, despite that home being broken. And it’s a brave triumph of a novel that readers won’t forget long after finishing it." WebMuch 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. Show more 224 pages, Kindle Edition WebThe Flats, 1955. Helen Jean sat on the hole inside the musky outhouse and pushed her palms flat against the bench, willing her body to do the work she needed it to. She waited for the heavy knot to begin to throb and her bowels to break. For the familiar pain to erupt from the core of her stomach. She had followed all of Ernestine's orders ... lagu yang rhoma irama