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PERISH
Great, new literature in the vein Jesmy Ward, Charles Winslow and Toni Morrison.
PERISH follows four members of the Turner clan: Julie B., Alex, Jan, and Lydia, as they're called home to say goodbye to their mother and grandmother, Helen Jean. Told through alternating chapters, PERISH explores the effects of inherited trauma and intra-generational violence and pain as the family's "reunion" unearths long-kept secrets and forces each member to ask themselves important questions about who is deserving of forgiveness and who bears the cross of blame.
With a masterfully composed plot that bears an infernal emotional charge, it is astonishing that PERISH is only Latoya Watkins's very first novel. It is a book that will linger in your mind for a long time, as its reading makes you intimate with the central family's tangled web of concealed and unacknowledged memories. PERISH is a moving and important book, taking up issues of race, generational trauma, familial bonds and their undoings, all explored in Watkins's lucid and caring prose.
LaToya Watkins' writing has appeared or is forthcoming in A Public Space, The Sun, McSweeney's, Kenyon Review, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and elsewhere. She has received grants, scholarships, and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and A Public Space (she was one of their 2018 Emerging Writers Fellows). She holds a PhD in Aesthetic Studies from the University of Texas at Dallas and is co-director of the Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat.
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Published 2022-08-23 by Tiny Reparations |