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THE UNSETTLED - AYANA MATHIS KARTONIERT (TB)

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • From the best-selling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie  a
searing multi-generational novel—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 survivalA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times  The Washington Post  The New Yorker 
Oprah Daily  Kirkus Reviews [A] powerful book. —Marilynne Robinson  Pulitzer Prize–winning
author of Gilead • Emotionally propulsive – Oprah Daily • Showcases Ayana Mathis's grace on the
page  as writer  as storyteller. A book to be read and re-read. – Jesmyn Ward  author of Let Us
DescendTwo bold  utopic communities are at the heart of Ayana Mathis’s 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  Bonaparte's 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 Underground’s violent zeal. Ava’s
eleven-year-old son Toussaint wants out – his future awaits him on his grandmother’s land 
where the sounds of cicada and frog song might save him if only he can make it there. In
Mathis’s 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?

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