Stephanie Powell Watts’ debut novel No One Is Coming to Save Us has been nominated for two NAACP Image Awards in the following categories: Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction and Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author. Click here to see the full list of nominees.
No One Is Coming to Save Us, the inaugural selection for Sarah Jessica Parker’s Book Club Central, is a revelatory debut novel from an insightful voice; with echoes of The Great Gatsby, it is an arresting and powerful novel about an extended African American family and their colliding visions of the American Dream. In evocative prose, Stephanie Powell Watts has crafted a full and stunning portrait that combines a universally resonant story with an intimate glimpse into the hearts of one family.
“Imagine The Great Gatsby, only set in the contemporary American South, and retold with black characters, rather than the lily-white Long Island set. Watts’ retelling is smart, unsettling, at times hilarious, and a wonderful update to this classic American novel.”
—Nylon Magazine
“Watts is so captivating a writer. She’s unusually deft with dialogue…[The novel is] conveyed in a prose style that renders the common language of casual speech into natural poetry, blending intimate conversation with the rhythms of gossip, town legend, even song lyrics…An indelible story.” —Washington Post
Congratulations, Stephanie!
-Lainey