We Are Taking Only What We Need: Stories

by Stephanie Powell Watts

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062749900
• ISBN13: 9780062749901
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.9"