![]() Startling, intimate, and prescient on their own, these stories build to a kaleidoscopic understanding of both the individual and the collective black experience over the last fifty years in the American South. And in the collection’s title story, a young girl experiences loss for the first time in the fallout from her father’s relationship with her babysitter. In “Highway 18” a young Jehovah’s Witness going door to door with an expert field-service partner from up north is at a crossroads: will she go to college or continue to serve the church? “If You Hit Randall County, You’ve Gone Too Far” tells of a family trying to make it through a tense celebratory dinner for a son just out on bail. ![]() 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. In these powerfully rendered, prizewinning stories, working-class African Americans across the South strive for meaning and search for direction in lives shaped by forces beyond their control-now available as a Harper Perennial Olive Edition. Jones, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction “Watts shows us people, real souls like the people we sit next to on the bus, people who live down the hall, people who could be relatives.” -Edward P. ![]() “Lorrie Moore meets Eudora Welty.” - The New Yorker ![]()
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