Longlisted for the National Book AwardAn extraordinary and unforgettable short story collection
about community home betrayal and forgiveness from a writer whose spellbinding buoyant *
storytelling will break your heart as it tends to the wounds. *Texas Monthly In Holler Child s
eleven brilliant stories LaToya Watkins presses at the bruises of guilt love and
circumstance. Each story introduces us to a character irrevocably shaped by place and reaching
toward something hope reconciliation freedom. In Cutting Horse the appearance of a horse in
a man s suburban backyard places a former horse breeder in trouble with the police. In Holler
Child a mother is forced into an impossible position when her son gets in a kind of trouble
she knows too well from the other side. And Time After shows us the unshakable bonds of family
as a sister journeys to find her estranged brother the one who saved her many times over.
Throughout Holler Child we see love lost and gained and grief turned to hope. Much like
LaToya Watkins s acclaimed debut novel Perish this collection peers deeply into lives of
women and men experiencing intimate and magnificent reckonings exploring how race power and
inequality map on the individual and demonstrating the mythic proportions of everyday life.
