{"product_id":"signed-first-edition-the-unsettled-ayana-mathis","title":"SIGNED FIRST EDITION: The Unsettled - Ayana Mathis","description":"\u003cp style=\"line-height: 18.75pt;background: white;margin: 0cm 0cm 9.0pt 0cm\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black;letter-spacing: .35pt\"\u003e‘[A] powerful book’ Marilynne Robinson\r\\n‘A book to be read and re-read’ Jesmyn Ward\r\\n‘Poetic and fierce’ Yiyun Li\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 18.75pt;background: white;margin: 9.0pt 0cm 9.0pt 0cm\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black;letter-spacing: .35pt\"\u003eFrom the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia in 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. Estranged from her own mother, Dutchess, and their home in Bonaparte, Alabama, Ava is determined to give her son\r\\nthe chance of a better life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 18.75pt;background: white;margin: 9.0pt 0cm 9.0pt 0cm\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black;letter-spacing: .35pt\"\u003eBut when Toussaint’s father, Cass, reappears, Ava is swept off course by his charisma and his bold vision for racial justice. As Ava becomes more enmeshed with Cass and the radical group he has created, Toussaint begins to sense the danger and threat of violence simmering all around him. He begins to dream of Dutchess and Bonaparte, his home and birthright, but can he find his way there?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 18.75pt;background: white;margin: 9.0pt 0cm 9.0pt 0cm\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black;letter-spacing: .35pt\"\u003eThe Unsettled\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black;letter-spacing: .35pt\"\u003e is an explosive and vital story of belonging, legacy and survival from one of America’s most talented storytellers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 18.75pt;background: white;margin: 9.0pt 0cm 9.0pt 0cm\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black;letter-spacing: .35pt\"\u003e‘I can’t remember when I read anything that moved me quite this way, besides the work of Toni Morrison’ Oprah Winfrey on \u003ci\u003eThe Twelve Tribes of Hattie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm;background: white;vertical-align: baseline\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeps Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50406183010643,"sku":null,"price":2.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0937\/1346\/5683\/files\/unsettled.jpg?v=1739653983","url":"https:\/\/www.jaggedlittlequill.com\/products\/signed-first-edition-the-unsettled-ayana-mathis","provider":"Jagged Little Quill","version":"1.0","type":"link"}