Ayana Mathis’s Bookshelf

Were you inspired by Ayana Mathis in conversation about her new book, “The Unsettled,” with Emily Raboteau?

Here are some related materials you can borrow through the library!

ASSORTED BOOKS

• “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie” by Ayana Mathis
• “Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora” by Emily Raboteau
• “Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances” by Catherine Keller (not available through BCCLS)
• “Chicken Bone Beach: A Pictorial History of Atlantic City’s Missouri Avenue Beach” by Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks

GEE’S BEND

• “The Quilts of Gee’s Bend” by John Beardsley
• The Quiltmakers of Gee‘s Bend (DVD)

THE MOVE BOMBING OF 1985

• “Burning Down the House: MOVE and the Tragedy of Philadelphia” by John Anderson and Hilary Hevenor
• “Philadelphia Fire: A Novel” by John Edgar Wideman
• Let the Fire Burn (DVD)

CULTS

• “Plague of Doves” by Louise Erdrich
• “Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen” by Mark Rudd
• “The Incendiaries” by R. O. Kwon
• “Assata: An Autobiography” by Assata Shakur (not available through BCCLS)