Holler, Child: Stories

Longlisted for the National Book Award An extraordinary and unforgettable short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forgivenessfrom a writer whose spellbinding, buoyant* storytelling will break your heart as it tends to the wounds. *Texas Monthly In Holler, Childs eleven brilliant stories, LaToya Watkins presses at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance. Each story introduces us to a character irrevocably shaped by place and reaching toward somethinghope, reconciliation, freedom. In Cutting Horse, the appearance of a horse in a mans suburban backyard places a former horse breeder in trouble with the police. In Holler, Child, a mother is forced into an impossible position when her son gets in a kind of trouble she knows too well from the other side. And Time After shows us the unshakable bonds of family as a sister journeys to find her estranged brotherthe one who saved her many times over. Throughout Holler, Child, we see love lost and gained, and grief turned to hope. Much like LaToya Watkinss acclaimed debut novel, Perish, this collection peers deeply into lives of women and men experiencing intimate and magnificent reckoningsexploring how race, power, and inequality map on the individual, and demonstrating the mythic proportions of everyday life.