The Book of Chuck
A Novel
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The Book of Chuck
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LaToya Watkins
Summary
Set across Texas and spanning four generations, The Book of Chuck is a gimlet-eyed investigation into birthright and belonging through the story of one family in which certain members have clairvoyant powers.
“Pa, no go. Him burn.” When baby Nannie utters these prophetic words in 1936, she marks herself as cursed. The ability to see death before it happens forever changes the course of her life, and the lives of her descendants.
Forty years later, Chuck is about to become a father. He intends to make a home filled with love, unlike the one he was born into. But when he begins paying visits to his estranged mother, Nannie, in search of answers, she starts pushing him away from the life he’s always wanted.
It’s the cusp of a new millennium, and Baby is on the precipice of major change. Her mother is packing up their home and moving them into a religious community that believes the world is ending. But when Baby begins to have surprising visions of death, she investigates her lineage, piecing together what she can about her father, Chuck, and her family’s deeply shrouded past. These visions, once seen as a curse, become an indelible link to her history—recasting what she thought she understood of love, parentage, and prophecy.
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Critic reviews
“LaToya Watkins’s The Book of Chuck is a gorgeous meditation on time, family, regret and how we’re shaped by the people we love and those who loved us, even long after they’re gone. Watkins’s characters breathe and weep and laugh on the page—Baby, Lettie and of course Chuck himself—all came alive for me in a way that’s so rare and so precious.”
—Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author
“Tracing the story of a family burdened with the generational gift of clairvoyance—specifically with regards to the last moments of those they touch—The Book of Chuck is a magical intervention into the possibilities of history and memory. It sings with the pain of knowing that whether we confront, deny, or rail against destiny, our individual decisions are always made with imperfect knowledge, and how we choose to operate within those parameters is the axis on which this novel spins. Love weaves its way through questions of predetermination and agency, and Watkins has spun a cast of flawed characters whose longing to become versions of themselves they can live with will leave an indelible mark on any reader’s heart. I carried this book around with me for days.”
—Jemimah Wei, author of The Original Daughter
—Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author
“Tracing the story of a family burdened with the generational gift of clairvoyance—specifically with regards to the last moments of those they touch—The Book of Chuck is a magical intervention into the possibilities of history and memory. It sings with the pain of knowing that whether we confront, deny, or rail against destiny, our individual decisions are always made with imperfect knowledge, and how we choose to operate within those parameters is the axis on which this novel spins. Love weaves its way through questions of predetermination and agency, and Watkins has spun a cast of flawed characters whose longing to become versions of themselves they can live with will leave an indelible mark on any reader’s heart. I carried this book around with me for days.”
—Jemimah Wei, author of The Original Daughter
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