num_pages: 221
description: Fiction. African American Studies. African American women protagonists lose and find love confront sanity and craziness and strive to make sense of their lives in North Carolina. A Jehovah's Witness girl goes door-to-door with an expert field-service partner from up north. At a call center operator Sheila fields a caller's uncomfortable questions under a ruthless supervisor's eye. Forty-something Aunt Ginny surprises the family by finding a husband but soon she gives them more to talk about. Pulitzer-Prize winner Edward P. Jones writes Watts offers an impressive debut that promises only wonderful work to come. Fiction writer Marly Swick agrees: Each story seems at the same time to be a breath of fresh air and an instant classic. Author Alyce Miller notes that Watts writes with a penetrating eye for the extraordinary moments in the lives of ordinary people. As I read I found myself holding my breath.
language: English
title: We Are Taking Only What We Need
publisher: BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City