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Stephanie Powell Watts

    Stephanie Powell Watts autorsky zkoumá životy Afroameričanů žijících na americkém Jihu po integraci. Její povídky, často oceňované za svou literární kvalitu, se zaměřují na postavy pracující v náročných podmínkách fast foodů a továren nebo na ty, kteří šíří své náboženské přesvědčení. Watts se ve své tvorbě ponořuje do složitých mezilidských vztahů a touhy po sounáležitosti, přičemž citlivě zachycuje sociální a ekonomické výzvy, kterým její postavy čelí. Její romány, inspirované klasickými díly a zasazené do současného venkovského prostředí Severní Karoliny, nabízejí hluboký vhled do aspirací a frustrací menšinových komunit.

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    We Are Taking Only What We Need
    We Are Taking Only What We Need: Stories
    • We Are Taking Only What We Need: Stories

      • 305 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení
      4,0(3)Ohodnotit

      In 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 controlThe 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.

      We Are Taking Only What We Need: Stories
    • We Are Taking Only What We Need

      • 240 stránek
      • 9 hodin čtení
      3,4(86)Ohodnotit

      In 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 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.

      We Are Taking Only What We Need
    • Returning to Pinewood, North Carolina, Jj Ferguson confronts a transformed landscape and the complexities of his past relationships. His high school sweetheart, Ava, is now married and struggling with infertility, while her husband, Henry, grapples with the economic decline of the furniture industry. The shadow of Jim Crow looms over the community, affecting the lives of those Jj once knew. Ava's mother, Sylvia, attempts to cope with the absence of her son by interfering in others' lives, highlighting the deep-seated changes in their small town.

      No One Is Coming to Save Us