Ayana Mathis expands the notion of who is a "safe" person in "The Unsettled"
The author of The 12 Tribes of Hattie says she seeks to create characters who can survive the worst without being vectors of suffering.
The author of The 12 Tribes of Hattie says she seeks to create characters who can survive the worst without being vectors of suffering.
Steeped in the region's multilayered cultural history, the storytelling tradition of the American South is as rich and lyrical as it is deeply complex.