And Don, Sylvia's unworthy but charming husband, just won't stop hanging around. Ava's mother, Sylvia, caters to and meddles with the lives of those around her, trying to fill the void left by her absent son. Her husband, Henry, has grown distant, frustrated by the demise of the furniture industry, which has outsourced to China and stripped the area of jobs. No One Is Coming to Save Us is a revelatory debut from an insightful voice: with echoes of The Great Gatsby it is an arresting and powerful novel about an extended African American family and their colliding visions of the American Dream. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. No One Is Coming To Save Us even the lyrical title tugs at us takes us inside the psyche and broken hearts of black characters hard-hit in one of these communities. Ava is now married and desperate for a baby, though she can't seem to carry one to term. Read reviews and buy No One Is Coming to Save Us - by Stephanie Powell Watts (Paperback) at Target. For the ordinary poor in the poorest of towns where not much happens here except the same, same these causalities are a deathblow. But as he reenters his former world, where factories are in decline and the legacy of Jim Crow is still felt, he's startled to find that the people he once knew and loved have changed just as much as he has. Listen to No One Is Coming to Save Us A Novel by Stephanie Powell Watts available from Rakuten Kobo. 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. Obviously no matter what you write, you want it to be good, she told the Bulletin at the time, but I have to say, I really, really want this to be good.

'JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina, to build his dream house and to pursue his high school sweetheart, Ava. Stephanie Powell Watts debut novel No One Is Coming to Save Us was published by Ecco in 2017.

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