In the late 1600s a Swiss medical student, trying to diagnose the suffering of displaced people, coined the word “nostalgia,” drawing from the ancient Greek for “homecoming” (nostos) and “pain” (algos ...
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 ...
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