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No one is coming to save us : a novel / Stephanie Powell Watts.
Van Pelt Library PS3623.A887 N6 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watts, Stephanie Powell, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American families--Fiction.
- African American families.
- North Carolina--Fiction.
- North Carolina.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 371 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017.
- Summary:
- "JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina, to build his dream house and to pursue his high school sweetheart, Ava. But as he reenters his former world, where factories are in decline and the legacy of Jim Crow is still felt, he's startled to find that the people he once knew and loved have changed just as much as he has. Ava is now married and desperate for a baby, though she can't seem to carry one to term. Her husband, Henry, has grown distant, frustrated by the demise of the furniture industry, which has outsourced to China and stripped the area of jobs. Ava's mother, Sylvia, caters to and meddles with the lives of those around her, trying to fill the void left by her absent son. And Don, Sylvia's unworthy but charming husband, just won't stop hanging around. JJ's return--and his plans to build a huge mansion overlooking Pinewood and woo Ava--not only unsettles their family, but stirs up the entire town."--Jacket flap.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Suet Yee Chong."
- "Jacket design by Sara Wood. Jacket artwork © Stephanie Kelly Clark."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy has sticker "SJP Book Club Central Official Selection. American Library Association" on front of dustjacket.
- ISBN:
- 0062472984
- 9780062472984
- OCLC:
- 952207121
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