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The unsettled / Ayana Mathis.
Van Pelt Library PS3613.A82847 U57 2023
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LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating Mathis Unsettled
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mathis, Ayana, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mothers and sons--Fiction.
- Mothers and sons.
- Nineteen eighties--Fiction.
- Nineteen eighties.
- Public shelters--Fiction.
- Public shelters.
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- African American families--Fiction.
- African American families.
- Poor families--Fiction.
- Poor families.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Fiction.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 311 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
- Summary:
- "Set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama--about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival"-- Provided by publisher.
- From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place, and to save herself from the complicated past that led them there.
- Notes:
- Hurston/Wright Legacy Award - General Fiction, Finalist, 2024
- Other Format:
- Online version: Mathis, Ayana. Unsettled.
- ISBN:
- 9780525519935
- 0525519939
- OCLC:
- 1355647595
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