TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mathis,Ayana
TI  - The unsettled
SN  - 9780525519935
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Mothers and sons
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Nineteen eighties
KW  - Public shelters
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - African Americans
KW  - African American families
KW  - Poor families
KW  - Philadelphia (Pa.)
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Novels
N2  - "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"--; 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
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