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Stephanie Powell Watts

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Stephanie Powell Watts won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for her debut story collection, We Are Taking Only What We Need (2012), also named one of 2013’s Best Summer Reads by O: The Oprah Magazine. Her short fiction has been included in two volumes of the Best New Stories from the South anthology and honored with a Pushcart Prize. Ms. Powell Watts’s stories explore the lives of African Americans in fast food and factory jobs, working door to door as Jehovah’s Witness ministers, and pressing against the boundaries of the small town, post-integration South. Her forthcoming debut novel, titled No One Is Coming to Save Us, follows the return of a successful native son to his home in North Carolina and his attempt to join th ...more

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	Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Introduction), Mahogany L. Browne (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Veronica Chambers (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.36 avg rating — 6,509 ratings — published 2018 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No One Is Coming to Save Us 3.02 avg rating — 6,437 ratings — published 2017 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Are Taking Only What We Need 3.39 avg rating — 658 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unassigned Territory by Stephanie Powell Watts (Goodreads Author), LeVar Burton (Narrator) 3.19 avg rating — 89 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chattahoochee Review (Volume XXXIV, Number 1 Book 34) by Monica Berlin, Ron Cooper, Jeremy Collins (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“When you love somebody you decide what you can take and what will kill you and work backward from what will kill you.”
― Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us

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“The sting of not having or not having enough bores a pain black hole that sucks all the other of life’s injuries into one sharp stinging gap that you don’t need a scientist to remind you may be bottomless.”
― Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us

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“She wasn't about to 'come on'. Men tried to make you believe in your own crazy. If you are hysterical they don't have to see you as an equal, look you in the eye like a person they have to respect. It suited them to make you think that all the shit they pulled, all the lies they told, were in your head. The only crazy part was that most women did believe their men or chose to pretend. Most kept on believing right up to the point the men walked out the door or killed them. (178)”
― Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us

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What shall we read in March, 2025? Books published after 1990.

The Girls in the Stilt House, by Kelly Mustian

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Last Days of the Dog-Men: Stories, by Brad Watson

15 votes 30.6%

The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had, by Kristin Levine

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No One Is Coming to Save Us, by Stephanie Powell Watts

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Hearts of Mercy, by Joan Donaldson

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