Ayana Mathis is the author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Knopf, 2012) and, most recently, The Unsettled (Knopf, 2023), winner of McSweeney’s Gabe Hudson Prize. The book was named a New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book of 2023, a best of 2023 by The New Yorker, Publisher’s Weekly, Oprah Daily, and a Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2023. Her first novel,The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, was a New York Times Bestseller, a selection for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0, a 2013 New York Times Notable Book, and an NPR Best Book.

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