Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for her debut story collection, We Are Taking Only What We Need (2012), also named one of 2013’s Best Summer Reads by O: The Oprah Magazine. Can they shape their lives to align with their wishes rather than their realities? Or are they resigned to the rhythms of the particular lives they lead? No One Is Coming to Save Us is a revelatory debut from an insightful voice that combines a universally resonant story with an intimate glimpse into the hearts of one family. JJ’s newfound wealth forces everyone to consider what more they want and deserve from life than what they already have-and how they might go about getting it.
And Don, Sylvia’s undeserving but charming husband, just won’t stop hanging around. Ava’s mother Sylvia has put her own life on hold as she caters to and meddles with those around her, trying to fill the void left by her absent son. The decline of the town’s once-thriving furniture industry has made Ava’s husband Henry grow distant and frustrated. Ava is now married, and wants a baby more than anything. But he finds that the people he once knew and loved have changed, just as he has. JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina to build his dream home and to woo his high school sweetheart, Ava. The Great Gatsby brilliantly recast in the contemporary South: a powerful first novel about an extended African-American family and their colliding visions of the American Dream.
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