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| Verlag | Penguin Random House |
| Auflage | 2023 |
| Seiten | 336 |
| Format | 15,6 x 2,3 x 23,2 cm |
| Gewicht | 388 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781524712594 |
| Bestell-Nr | 52471259UA |
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 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 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 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
Two 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. Dutc hess 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?
