“And I try to record the scent of outdoors and flowers and dust and lavender and old tears so I can carry it with me.” After reading Latoya Watkins’s Perish, I stated that it wasn’t for me, writing “There are definite echoes of Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston, but it is much more ragged, rawContinue reading “THE BOOK OF CHUCK – Latoya Watkins”
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PERISH – Latoya Watkins
I’ve been dragging my feet over this review, and I contemplated not even posting. But I remembered I posted about How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps her House, and that novel left me, as a reader, with the same sort of feeling as Latoya Watkins’s Perish (Tiny Reparations Books 2022). I’m actually going to recycle partContinue reading “PERISH – Latoya Watkins”
