Ayana Mathis on Creating Dangerously

“I create dangerously by asking questions.” Ayana Mathis
Later this week, you’ll see the complete interview with the lovely, talented, smart AF @ayana.mathis but in the meantime, check out these bars she’s dropping.
In Mathis’s electrifying novel, Bonaparte is both mythic landscape and spiritual inheritance, and 1980s Philadelphia is its raw, darkly glittering counterpoint. The Unsettled is a spellbinding portrait of two fierce women reckoning with the steep cost of resistance: What legacy will we leave our children? Where can we be free?
“Emotionally propulsive ... Through a chorus of distinctive and virtuosic voices, we gather the story of a mother, a daughter, and the land that both unites and divides them.”- Oprah Daily