The unsettled /

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 secu...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Mathis, Ayana (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2023].
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Mothers and sons > Fiction. Nineteen eighties > Fiction. Public shelters > Fiction. Mothers and daughters > Fiction. African Americans > Fiction. African American families > Fiction. Poor families > Fiction. Philadelphia (Pa.) > Fiction.