No One Is Coming to Save Us: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “The Great Gatsby migrates to the American South in Watts’ powerful novel.”

  — Entertainment Weekly

• “A compassionate and well-timed social commentary, wherein people like us endeavor, falter, and finally endure.”

  — O, the Oprah Magazine

• “This timely novel sheds its green light on economic and emotional heartbreak and the spaces where the living meet the dead.”

  — Vanity Fair

• “Watts writes about ordinary people leading ordinary lives with an extraordinary level of empathy and attention…The novel’s intricately plotted relationships pay off satisfyingly in its final chapters.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Watts is so captivating a writer. She’s unusually deft with dialogue…An indelible story.”

  — Washington Post

• “This universally resonant story of the American Dream is a poignant examination of family and human nature.”

  — Chicago Review of Books

• “Stephanie Powell Watts is a writer of wondrous skill, imagination, and sensitivity, and No One Is Coming to Save Us is a beautiful testament to that.”

  — Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize–winning author

• “A powerful—and, in today’s world, necessary—perspective on the American dream and the possibility of beginning again.”

  — Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author

• “Watts powerfully depicts the struggles many Americans face trying to overcome life’s inevitable disappointments.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Watts shares with us an often neglected segment of America—working and middle-class African Americans living in the current century…Believable and gratifying without being pat.”

  — Library Journal

• “Watts offers a human tale of resilience and the universally understood drive to hang on and do whatever it takes to save oneself.”

  — Booklist

• “[With] narrator Janina Edwards’ Southern accent and mature, commanding voice…the miserable circumstances of one African–American family unfold.”

  — AudioFile