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01702aam a2200313 i 4500 001 56A0108661B211EE96A426B62DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231003010052 008 230907t20232022nyuaj e 000 f eng 020 $a 0593185927 020 $a 9780593185926 035 $a (OCoLC)1396437635 040 $a NAM $b eng $e rda $c NAM $d JUH $d SILO 043 $a n-us-tx 100 1 $a Watkins, LaToya, $e author. 245 10 $a Perish : $b a novel / $c LaToya Watkins. 250 $a First Tiny Reparations Books trade paperback edition. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, $c [2023] 300 $a 328 pages : $b illustrations, genealogical table ; $c 21 cm 520 $a In a tight-knit, rural Black Texan community of Jerusalem, the Turner clan comes together as the family says good-bye to their matriarch on her deathbed. The family's "reunion" unearths long-kept secrets: Julie regrets her wasted youth and the time spent under Helen Jean's thumb; police officer Alex grapples with a dark and twisted past; Jan yearns to go leave her children -- and Jerusalem -- behind for good; Lydia's marriage is falling apart because her body can't seem to stay pregnant. Each will ask themselves important questions about who is deserving of forgiveness and who bears the cross of blame. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a African Americans $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Generations $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Family secrets $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Psychic trauma $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20231003013434.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=56A0108661B211EE96A426B62DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search