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.

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Summary:	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 the complicated past that led them there.
Item Description:	"A Borzoi book."
Physical Description:	311 pages ; 25 cm.
ISBN:	9780525519935 0525519939