![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Ava's live chats on reveal Watts to be an incisive satirist.) But it’s JJ, the poor boy who left home and returned a rich man, who seeks the most impossible thing of all: to controvert time and finally claim the woman who has chosen another over him. Matriarch Sylvia yearns to feel she still matters in the world her daughter Ava is desperate to conceive a child, even in a deeply troubled marriage. The residents of mostly black Pinewood, North Carolina, crave what they can't have. But Watts's homage is merely the framework for a very modern theme a once-thriving town ravaged by the flight of industry. The first thing you notice about No One Is Coming to Save Us, Stephanie Powell Watts's debut novel, is the audacity of its conceit: a Great Gatsby update set in the South with African American protagonists. ![]()
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