even as she draws on family
looks for a father who doesn’t want to be found
men who don’t take kindly to any threat to their business
especially popular with the men in town
They converge and collide on one fateful day at the Big Oakland Powwow and together this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history
The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis early reader even as she draws onTwo bold, utopic communities are at the heart of Ayana Mathiss searing follow up to her bestselling debut, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie. Bonaparte, Alabamaonce 10,000 glorious Black owned acresis now a ghost town vanishing to depopulation, crooked developers, and an eerie mist closing in on its shoreline. Dutchess Carson, Bonaparte's fiery, tough talking protector, fights to keep its remaining one thousand acres in the hands of the last five residents.