Lehigh University Associate Professor of English and Notations committee member, Stephanie Powell Watts, discusses her novel about the dreams and desperations of a modern Black family. For many of us, the takeaway from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic “The Great Gatsby” is the glamour. Watts latches on to something deeper. She spoke with The Star about her book “No One Is Coming to Save Us,” her history with “The Great Gatsby”, and the DNA shared by the two books. "I was thinking about what it means, in some ways, to be where you are as an American. These characters were in a place with great promise, that they had a dream for, but it seemed to be kind of crumbling around them. There were these very specific dreams and the Great American Dream, which no matter how hard they tried they couldn’t get access to," said Watts when asked what she drew from "Gatsby."