The UnsettledTwo bold, utopic communities are at the heart of Ayana Mathis's searing follow up to her bestselling debut, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie. Bonaparte, Alabama once 10,000 glorious Black owned acres is 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

Sade is beautiful

where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights

Rachel reawakens Nathan's long-dormant artistic aspirations

and what we want to become

Orphaned as a child

Her writing has been called "stunning" by The New York Times and her fans include Neil Gaiman

Kyler Broadus

The passionate self he's long hidden from everyone has a new

redemption

Xiomara refuses to be silent

and for a while in high school that included Ella Wilson

and Sabaa Tahir