The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis

The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis[A] powerful book Marilynne RobinsonA book to be read and re read Jesmyn WardPoetic and fierce Yiyun LiFrom the moment Ava Carson and her ten year old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia in 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. Estranged from her own mother, Dutchess, and their home in Bonaparte, Alabama, Ava is determined to give her sonthe chance of a better life. But when Toussaints father, Cass, reappears,

We are also blissfully unaware of the de-natured lives we often ask them to lead

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