Sterling Watson

Amid the classic noir elements, author Sterling Watson slow-rolls a moving reflection on the costs to the human heart of vast social and economic change. -New York Magazine Eighteen-year-old Travis Hollister is always the stranger who comes to town. As a twelve-year-old escaping a disordered and unhappy home and parents who loved hard but couldn't make it work, Travis left...

The Committee was awarded the 2021 Southern Literary Review Book of the Year. "A captivating read and an absorbing tale about the abuses that can arise from intolerance and prejudice. It carries a warning from the past to the siloed, fractured communities of today." -Historical Novel Society In the late 1950s, Gainesville, Florida, seems to be a sleepy university town....