Kathy Watson Author Talk
March 20 @ 6:30 pm
Kathy Watson, author of Orphans of the Living, will give a talk and reading at the Mt. View Grange in White Salmon, sponsored by the White Salmon Valley Library, on Friday, March 20 at 6:30 p.m. Waucoma Bookstore will be on hand to sell books, and Watson will sign.
Watson’s debut novel, Orphans of the Living, follows the Stovall family’s early 20th-century quest for home and redemption as they encounter racism, poverty and inequality across the American South and West.
The novel is a 2025 Literary Titan Book Award Gold Medalist in Fiction. Early reviews include this one from Willy Vlautin, winner of the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and author of eight novels, including The Horse:
“Orphans is a stunning debut. Where has this writer been hiding? It’s all blood and soul and heartache and survival. A story of the powerful and the powerless. I can’t recommend it highly enough and I can’t wait to see what she does next.”
