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Author of THE UNSETTLED and THE TWELVE TRIBES OF HATTIE- Oprah Book Club 2.0. Professor, always looking for laughs
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One year today.
22 Oct 2024
Norma Hundley
August 11,1933-October 22, 2023
In honor of my mother, 9 weeks passed, on the eve of this first year I will live without her. I honor .the magnitude of my mother’s being, the ferocity of her love, her strangeness, her uncanny wisdom, her troubles and how she was, sometimes, troubling. I honor this singular woman, this friend of my soul.
And for all of us who are struggling to find a way forward, who must relearn - haltingly and in much pain — to be the person our lost ones efforted for and hoped in: I wish us fewer days of darkness. I wish us compassion for ourselves on those days we are bereft and afraid and can’t stop crying and our strength is gone. I wish us resilience and adaptability and something or someone that soothes. I wish us every good thing that our lost loves wished for us. May their memory be a blessing, as were their lives.
31 Dec 2023
Here we go!!!
03 Apr 2025
I haven’t been on here much except as a lurker for advice and to-dos about the current crises (and dog videos when it all gets to be too much). But I did want to post about this- it’s a tremendous honor and I can’t think of anyone with whom to have a richer conversation about this fraught and aching and enraging right now. If you’re around, come on down to labyrinth.books
05 Mar 2025
Little bit of Morocco. Major magic.
27 Dec 2024
Congratulations to our new Mary Mackall Gwinn Hodder Fellows for 2025-26: sculptor Carlos Agredano (@HomeBoysDontCry), performing and visual artist Satoshi Haga (@BinBinFactory), novelist @Ayana.Mathis, composer Peter Shin (@P.S.Shin), and playwright Catherine Yu (@Cateify). Welcome to @Princeton! Tap link in bio to learn more about these artists.
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2️⃣ Carlos Agredano (📸 by Nori Rasmussen)
3️⃣ Satoshi Haga (📸 by Reggie Shiobara)
4️⃣ Ayana Mathis (📸 by Beowulf Sheehan)
5️⃣ Peter S. Shin (📸 by Jonathan Lee)
6️⃣ Catherine Yu (📸 by Luke Fontana)
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Hodder Fellows may be writers, composers, choreographers, visual artists, performance artists, or other kinds of artists or humanists who demonstrate, as the program outlines, “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts.”
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13 Dec 2024
📚 After the phenomenal success of her first novel, « The Twelve Tribes of Hattie », author @ayana.mathis returns with a story that shifts between 1980s Philadelphia and a mythical Black utopia in Alabama : #theunsettled
👉 She tells us about finding inspiration in a particular moment of American history – of dashed hopes and failed social projects – and discusses the challenge of creating three-dimensional characters, including their flaws.
🇺🇸 We also talk about the upcoming US presidential election and Ayana tells us about an unexpected encounter with @oprah Winfrey herself.
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18 Oct 2024
Fall fellow and writer Ayana Mathis was raised in a Black evangelical church; her young life was circumscribed by the mores, doctrine, and rituals of faith in a God of contradictions: loving and generous on one hand, inscrutable and wrathful on the other.
Mathis left the church long ago, but its influence has never fully dissipated. In this talk—more exploration than analysis—Mathis discusses the religious inflections, for better and for worse, in the fiction she reads, writes, and critiques.
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➡️ Link in bio!
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09 Oct 2024
The U.S. Embassy Literature Series presents: A reading and discussion with AYANA MATHIS, moderated by SHARMAINE LOVEGROVE, coming up tomorrow, October 9 at 8pm 🔥
Two bold, utopic communities are at the heart of Ayana Mathis’s searing follow-up to her bestselling debut, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie.
Bonaparte, Alabama – once 10,000 glorious Black-owned acres – is now a ghost town vanishing to depopulation, crooked developers, and an eerie mist closing in on its shoreline. Dutchess Carson, Bonaparte’s fiery, tough-talking protector, fights to keep its remaining one thousand acres in the hands of the last five residents. Meanwhile, in Philadelphia, her estranged daughter Ava is drawn into Ark – a seductive, radical group with a commitment to Black self-determination in the spirit of the Black Panthers and MOVE, with a dash of the Weather Underground’s violent zeal. Ava’s eleven-year-old son Toussaint wants out – his future awaits him on his grandmother’s land, where the sounds of cicada and frog song might save him if only he can make it there.
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?
🔗 tickets and info via the link in our bio
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08 Oct 2024
Sunday morning market, plus a window I couldn’t resist- Vincennes
29 Sep 2024
Well, so, this happened. I am a little speechless, so forgive the awkward post. Mostly I am honored and grateful to Sanchia Semere, Gabe Hudson’s mother who so generously endowed this award, to McSweeney’s, and, well, to the universe. It’s been a really hard year and this is a ray of light.
And last but certainly not least, massive congratulations to the incredible short-listed authors!
12 Sep 2024
Celebrate!!
Much gratitude to @hurstonwright_legacy_awards for nominating The Unsettled! @aaknopf @trident_media @lyceumagency
29 Aug 2024
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