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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the best-selling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a searing multi-generational novelset in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabamaabout a mother fighting for her sanity and survival
Emotionally propulsive Through a chorus of distinctive and virtuosic voices, we gather the story of a mother, a daughter, and the land that both unites and divides them.- Oprah Daily Showcases Ayana Mathiss grace on the page, as writer, as storyteller. A book to be read and re-read. Jesmyn Ward, author of Let Us Descend
Two bold, utopic communities are at the heart of Ayana Mathiss searing follow-up to her bestselling debut, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie. Bonaparte, Alabama once 10,000 glorious Black-owned acres is now a ghost town vanishing to depopulation, crooked developers, and an eerie mist closing in on its shoreline. Dutchess Carson, Bonapartes fiery, tough-talking protector, fights to keep its remaining one thousand acres in the hands of the last five residents. Meanwhile, in Philadelphia, her estranged daughter Ava is drawn into Ark a seductive, radical group with a commitment to Black self-determination in the spirit of the Black Panthers and MOVE, with a dash of the Weather Undergrounds violent zeal. Avas eleven-year-old son Toussaint wants out his future awaits him on his grandmothers land, where the sounds of cicada and frog song might save him if only he can make it there.
In Mathiss electrifying novel, Bonaparte is both mythic landscape and spiritual inheritance, and 1980s Philadelphia is its raw, darkly glittering counterpoint. The Unsettled is a spellbinding portrait of two fierce women reckoning with the steep cost of resistance: What legacy will we leave our children? Where can we be free?
Author: Ayana Mathis
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 09/26/2023
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780525519935
Language: English
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