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African American families Fiction African American families Pennsylvania Philadelphia Fiction African Americans Fiction African Americans Migrations History 20th century Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Mothers and sons Fiction Nineteen eighties Fiction Philadelphia (Pa.) Fiction Poor families Fiction Public shelters FictionMathis, Ayana.
Summary: In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023