Tue, Aug 25
|Torch Center
Wildfire Reading Series featuring LaToya Watkins
Time & Location
Aug 25, 2026, 7:00 PM CDT
Torch Center, 6406 N Interstate 35 Frontage Rd suite 1807, Austin, TX 78752, USA
About the event
LaToya Watkins in conversation with Amanda Johnston. Join us as we explore family bonds, generational trauma, and how we're shaped by the people we love and those who loved us.
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About the Book
An extraordinary new novel about family, legacy, and an inherited curse, from National Book Award–nominated author LaToya Watkins
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.