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100 1  Mathis, Ayana,|eauthor. 
245 14 THE UNSETTLED /|cAyana Mathis. 
250    First large print edition. 
264  1 New York :|bRandom House Large Print,|c[2023] 
300    461 pages (large print) ;|c24 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
340    |nlarge print|2rda 
520    "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. Ava has been estranged from her own mother, 
       Dutchess, since she left her Alabama home as a young woman
       barely out of her teens. Despite their estrangement and 
       the thousand miles between them, mother and daughter are 
       deeply entwined, but Ava can't forgive her sharp-tounged, 
       larger than life mother whose intractability and bouts of 
       debilitating despair brought young Ava to the outer 
       reaches of neglect and hunger. Ava wants to love her son 
       differently, better. But when Toussaint’s father, Cass, 
       reappears, she is swept off course by his charisma, and 
       the intoxicating power of his radical vision to destroy 
       systems of racial injustice and bring about a bold new way
       of communal living. Meanwhile, in Alabama, Dutchess 
       struggles to keep Bonaparte, once a beacon of Black 
       freedom and self-determination, in the hands of its last 
       five Black residents—families whose lives have been rooted
       in this stretch of land for generations—and away from 
       rapidly encroaching white developers. She fights against 
       the erasure of Bonaparte's venerable history and the loss 
       of the land itself, which she has so arduously preserved 
       as Ava's inheritance. As Ava becomes more enmeshed with 
       Cass, Toussaint senses the danger simmering all around 
       him—his well-intentioned but erratic mother; the intense, 
       volatile figure of his father who drives his fledgling 
       Philadelphia community toward ever increasing violence and
       instability. He begins to dream of Dutchess and Bonaparte,
       his home and birthright, if only he can find his way 
       there"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Mothers|vFiction. 
650  0 Shelters for the homeless|vFiction. 
650  0 Sons|vFiction. 
655  7 Novels.|2lcgft 
655  7 Large print books.|2lcgft 
655  7 Large type books.|2local