Spanning decades, Perish tracks the choices Helen Jean-the matriarch of the Turner family-makes and the way those choices have rippled across generations, from her children to her grandchildren and beyond. Those are the words Helen Jean hears that fateteful night in her cousin’s outhouse that change the trajectory of her life. * The Millionsįrom 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 deathbed.īear it or perish yourself. Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Good Morning America * Essence* Esquire * The Root * Bustle * Ebony * PopSugar * Ms. And it’s a brave triumph of a novel that readers won’t forget long after finishing it. It’s a novel about coming home, despite that home being broken. It’s a difficult read and a tender story of silences and secrets. This is an impressive feat of storytelling. “Watkins’s prose is effortless and forthright.
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