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Dispossession

De: Tayari Jones

Narrado por: Gabrielle Union

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From Tayari Jones, author of the New York Times best-selling An American Marriage, and performed by Gabrielle Union, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020, comes an unflinching story about mothers and sons that will leave listeners reeling for days.

Motherhood isn’t easy, especially when you’re a mother of a Black son. Ten years ago, Cheryl jumped at the chance to send her son, Javonte, to an exclusive boarding school in New England - far away from Atlanta and the violence of the city streets. It was the American dream, or was it? Now settled in Vermont, Javonte is married and well-employed, but Cheryl hardly ever sees him, and when she does, her own son seems like someone she only used to know. So, when Javonte announces he’s coming home to Atlanta for MLK weekend, Cheryl calls off work, thinking this could be their chance to reconnect.

But a few days before the visit, Javonte cancels his trip.

After begging for the hours back at the white glove moving company where she works, Cheryl accepts a last-minute gig in her own neighborhood, cheered by the idea of a Black family moving on to bigger and better. But on her way to the job site, Cheryl learns the home’s occupants aren’t moving by choice. Over the next several hours, Cheryl must reckon with her own unresolved past in this searing story about family, race, and the lasting consequences of a choice that can’t be taken back.

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Boys can break your heart more than men

As with An American Marriage and Half Light, Tayari Jones has the ability to tell stories about the Black experience that are refreshingly nuanced, intimate, and relatable. In her latest short story, Dispossession, performed beautifully by Gabrielle Union, Cheryl is a divorcée who has an uncomfortably distant relationship with her only son. After taking on a job at a moving company, Cheryl finds herself having to collect the items of someone who’s been evicted, which causes her to reflect on memories of her own family getting put out several times when she was a young girl, and how that has impacted her life since then. My heart ached for this woman, who, like most mothers, struggles with how to do the right thing for her child.

Valerie B.

Editor Audible

About the Creator

Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage. Published in 2018, An American Marriage is an Oprah’s Book Club Selection and also appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list as well as his year-end roundup. The novel was awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize), Aspen Words Prize and an NAACP Image Award. It has been published in two dozen countries. Jones, a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, has also been a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, United States Artist Fellowship, NEA Fellowship, and Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowship. Her third novel, Silver Sparrow, was added to the NEA Big Read Library of classics in 2016.

Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She is an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University and the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.

About the Performer

Gabrielle Union is an actress, executive producer, activist, bestselling author, and most recently, a Time 100 cover honoree. Union starred opposite Jessica Alba on L.A.’s Finest, a Charter Spectrum original in which she was also an executive producer through her production shingle, I’ll Have Another Productions. The show received a 13-episode straight-to-season order for season one, and season two premiered on September 9, 2020. FOX picked up season one as part of their fall 2020 slate and it premiered on that network on September 21, 2020. Union formed I’ll Have Another in 2018 with the goal of telling stories centered on marginalized communities with their specific points of view in an authentic manner. In 2020, Union released her first children’s book Welcome to the Party, which was inspired by the birth of her daughter.

Union has a strong eye for business; she is a co-founder of the organic snack foods company Bitsy’s, and in August 2020, Union relaunched her hair care brand Flawless for women with natural hair to rave reviews. She is also the face of NY&Co’s 7th Avenue collection and has her own exclusive namesake collection through the brand. Her book We’re Going To Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated and True was released in 2017 and instantly became a New York Times best seller. Union serves as a leader and advocate for inclusion in the entertainment industry. She is also a champion of breast health and combating sexual violence.

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The story, excellent, superb, gripping and touching all wrapped in one. Once I hit submit I am looking for the next Tayari Jones novel.

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