The Mathis, Ayana creator author text novel Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. nyu 2023 2023 First edition monographic eng

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311 pages ; 25 cm "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"-- 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 adult Ayana Mathis n-us-pa Mothers and sons Fiction Nineteen eighties Fiction Public shelters Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction African Americans Fiction African American families Fiction Poor families Fiction African American families Fiction African American women Fiction Mother-son relationship Fiction Mother-daughter relationship Fiction Abnormal psychology Fiction Homelessness Fiction Philadelphia (Pa.) Fiction Philadelphia (Pa.) Fiction Pennsylvania Fiction Alabama Fiction 813/.6 Mathis, Ayana. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023 First edition (DLC) 2022058918 9780525519935 0525519939 2022058917 221219 20231128124255.0 1355647595