The Unsettled

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 "[A] powerful book. Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prizewinning 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 Descend 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