Julia Watts crée des récits qui plongent dans les complexités de l'identité et de l'appartenance, explorant les parcours de personnages à la recherche de leur place dans le monde. Son écriture est reconnue pour son exploration perspicace de la psychologie humaine et sa narration captivante. Watts examine avec maestria les subtilités des relations et des attentes sociales à travers ses contes originaux. Les lecteurs apprécient son travail pour son honnêteté sans faille et sa capacité à susciter de profondes réponses émotionnelles.
Heavenly Faith Simms, a 16-year-old girl raised by her strict grandmother after being abandoned by her mother, embarks on a transformative road trip with her best friend Bo, who struggles with his own emotional barriers. As they travel through the American South in a dilapidated car, they discover new perspectives on life and family, challenging their previous notions of belonging and connection. Their adventure not only seeks to find Heavenly's mother but also leads to profound personal growth and understanding of what family truly means.
It is the fall semester of 1990, and three students - all with the first name of Elizabeth - are on the roll for Professor Angela Rivers’ Women in Literature course at William Blount University. Like so many college students, each of these “Elizabeths” is on a journey of self-discovery which will determine the course of the rest of her life.With humor and heart, Women’s Studies follows one school year in the lives of these three young women and shows that in college, one’s extracurricular activities are often much more educational than what goes on in the classroom. Funny and romantic, sexy and insightful, Women’s Studies captures a time in women’s lives which is full of freedom, passion, and discovery.
A compelling LGBTQ YA novel by LAMBDA award-winning author Julia Watts, that
explores the unlikely friendship between Libby, the oldest child in a rural
Tennessee family of strict evangelical Christians, and Zo, her gender fluid
new neighbor.
When Bev's lover Andie receives an assistant professorship at a Christian-affiliated college, Bev does her best to be supportive. But she isn't too thrilled about the prospect of moving from Boston's lesbian ghetto to the small southern town of Morgan, Kentucky. Before she and Andie are even unpacked, a nosy neighbor is at the door with a welcoming cake and a basketful of personal questions. Bev is shocked when Andie tells the woman that the two of them are cousins - and mortified when the woman promises to set them up with all the eligible men in town, beginning with her grandson Cricket, the local mortician. Thus begins a hilarious and heartwarming tale of lesbian culture shock, the resiliency of true love, and the maddening gap between coming out and being out.
Growing up dirt poor in a Kentucky coal mining camp in the 1940s has made Glenda Mooney hungry for everything that life has to offer. She discovers early on the two vital forces that will sustain her throughout her life, music and love, in the arms of a preacher's daughter.
Navigating the challenges of adolescence, Miranda Jasper grapples with changes in her life, including her mother's new relationship and her best friend's impending move. As she approaches the age where her ability to communicate with ghosts will fade, she faces the looming loss of her ghostly companion, Abigail. When a classmate, Caylie, seeks help to free her wrongly imprisoned mother, Miranda, along with Adam and Abigail, embarks on a risky investigation that tests their friendship and Miranda's willingness to fight for what she holds dear.
In rural Kentucky, a sixteen-year-old boy with a love of quilting, cooking and Dolly Parton helps his grandma care for his opioid-addicted mother, until the discovery of a family secret upends everything he has ever believed. While other sixteen-year-old boys in Morgan, Kentucky, love hunting and football, Kody prefers to spend his time quilting with his grandmother ("Nanny"), watching Golden Girls reruns, and listening to old Dolly Parton albums. Nanny is Kody's main caregiver, but it takes both Nanny and Kody to take care of Kody's mother, whose drug problem is spinning out of control. Between looking after Mommy and trying to survive in a place that doesn't look kindly on feminine boys, Kody already has a hard time making sense of his life. But then he uncovers a family secret that will change everything in his life.
In Julia Watt's stunning adult novel, set in1953, two married women struggle to come to terms with their deepening love for each other in a small college town in Kentucky, against a backdrop of racism, sexism, and complete rejection of same-sex liaisons. In 1953 Collinsville, Kentucky, a small college town, colleagues and neighbors of Samuel and Boots are more than willing to accept their married status, even though their official relationship is one of convenience that will never be consummated. Boots, an English professor at Millwood College for Women, has long had clandestine affairs with muscular men, while Samuel dodges questions about her disinterest in motherhood. But when Samuel meets a new professor's wife, Frances, at a faculty party, she soon falls in love, and learns the difficulty of discretion in a town that doesn't accept the idea of two women sleeping together. The tragic consequences of a past once thought long-gone reflect present-day trends in this extraordinary novel of passion in the face of societal intolerance. LAMBDA award-winning author Julia Watts (Needlework, Quiver) returns to adult fiction in this consummate historical work.
