The Audacious Book Club: The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, Ayana Mathis’s debut novel, gains its narrative momentum with the arrival of children: for Hattie Shepherd, first come the twins, Jubilee and Philadelphia, who then die of pneumonia when they are just a few months old. Their deaths are followed by the births of nine more children, each of whom are afforded a chapter, and for…