Stephanie Powell Watts Collection

No One Is Coming to Save Us

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 Black family and their colliding visions of the American Dream. In evocative prose, Stephanie Powell Watts has crafted a full and stunning portrait that combines a universally resonant story with an intimate glimpse into the hearts of one family.

We Are Taking Only What We Need

In these powerfully rendered, prizewinning stories, working-class Black 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 to start over again and again.