Asked to fill out forms at the Cherry Street Intake Center for the Homeless in Philadelphia, Ava Carson writes a story full of details that have no bearing on her placement in a shelter. She is 45 ...
Mathis (The Twelve Tribes of Hattie) offers a simmering family saga involving fraught efforts in building Black communities. In 1985, Ava Carson and her 10-year-old son, Touissant, are thrown out of ...