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An extraordinary and unforgettable short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forgiveness - from a writer whose "spellbinding, buoyant"* storytelling will break your heart as it tends to the wounds.*Texas Monthly. In Holler, Child's 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 something - hope, reconciliation, freedom. In "Cutting Horse," the appearance of a horse in a man's 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.
About the Author
LaToya Watkins's writing has appeared in A Public Space, The Sun, McSweeney's, Kenyon Review, The Pushcart Prize Anthology (2015) , and elsewhere. She has received grants, scholarships, and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and A Public Space (she was one of their 2018 Emerging Writers Fellows) . She holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas. Perish is her debut novel.
