LaToya Watkins Books in Order

Four members of a Black Texas family return to say goodbye to their dying matriarch. As long-kept secrets surface, they confront the choices that shaped generations and question where blame ends and forgiveness can begin.

Eleven stories follow people confronting the burdens of love, guilt and circumstance in Texas. A mother faces her son’s wrongdoing, a sister seeks her estranged brother, and everyday reckonings expose the pressures of race and inequality.

An ability to foresee death passes through generations of a Texas family. As Chuck seeks answers from his estranged mother and his daughter investigates her ancestry, visions connect them to a troubled inheritance of love and loss.