Perish A Novel

LaToya Watkins, Jeremy Michael Durm, Keyonni James, Chanté McCormick, Lisa Renee Pitts, Kacie Rogers

eAudio - 2022

“Watkins’s prose is effortless and forthright. . . . This is an impressive feat of storytelling. . . . It’s a difficult read and a tender story of silences and secrets. It’s a novel about coming home, despite that home being broken. And it’s a brave triumph of a novel that readers won’t forget long after finishing it.”—The New York Times Book ReviewNamed a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Good Morning America * Essence* Esquire * The Root * Bustle * Ebony * PopSugar * Ms. * The MillionsFrom a stunning new voice comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, exploring the effects of inherited trauma and intergenerational violence as the family comes together to say goodbye to their matriarch on her deat...hbed.Bear it or perish yourself. Those are the words Helen Jean hears... more