NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE US by Stephanie Powell Watts

AGENDA:

1. Short introductions (name, pronouns, one thing you liked about the book)
2. Discussion of NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE US
3. Deciding on March title*

Stephanie Powell Watts won the NAACP Image Award for Debut Author for NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE US in 2018.

"The Great Gatsby brilliantly recast in the contemporary South: a powerful first novel about an extended African-American family and their colliding visions of the American Dream.

JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina to build his dream home and to woo his high school sweetheart, Ava. But he finds that the people he once knew and loved have changed, just as he has. Ava is now married, and wants a baby more than anything. The decline of the town’s once-thriving furniture industry has made Ava’s husband Henry grow distant and frustrated. Ava’s mother Sylvia has put her own life on hold as she caters to and meddles with those around her, trying to fill the void left by her absent son. And Don, Sylvia’s undeserving but charming husband, just won’t stop hanging around.

JJ’s newfound wealth forces everyone to consider what more they want and deserve from life than what they already have—and how they might go about getting it. Can they shape their lives to align with their wishes rather than their realities? Or are they resigned to the rhythms of the particular lives they lead?"

NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE US is available for purchase through WritersBlockBookstore.com (USPS ship-to-home, curbside pickup, audiobook download through Libro.fm, or ebook download through My Must Reads). You can also borrow it from the Orange County Public Library System as a physical book via grab-and-go or home delivery, or as an ebook or audiobook download through the Overdrive and Libby apps. If you have any questions about how to obtain the book through these means, please comment on the event or DM host Shelby Bouck.

*Feel free to suggest a book from any genre for March! It should be published for an adult or young adult audience and be one continuous work, i.e. not a collection of short stories, essays, or poems.