Holler, Child

LaToya Watkins

eBook - 2023

Longlisted for the National Book AwardWinner of the Reading the West Book Award in FictionWinner of the Writers' League of Texas Book Award in FictionAn extraordinary 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 w...ith the police. In “Holler, Child,” a mother is forced into an impossible position when her son gets in a... more