The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB 2.0 SELECTION - "A remarkable page-turner of a novel." --Chicago Tribune In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd, swept up by the tides of the Great Migration, flees Georgia and heads north. This "brutal, illuminating version of the twentieth century African-American experience belongs alongside those of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston" (Newsday).
Full of hope, Hattie settles in Philadelphia to build a better life. Instead she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment, and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins are lost to an illness that a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children, whom she raises with grit, mettle, and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. She vows to prepare them to meet a world that will not be kind. Their lives, captured here in twelve luminous threads, tell the story of a mother's monumental courage--and a nation's tumultuous journey. Don't miss Ayana Matthis's new novel, The Unsettled coming soon
Full of hope, Hattie settles in Philadelphia to build a better life. Instead she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment, and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins are lost to an illness that a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children, whom she raises with grit, mettle, and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. She vows to prepare them to meet a world that will not be kind. Their lives, captured here in twelve luminous threads, tell the story of a mother's monumental courage--and a nation's tumultuous journey. Don't miss Ayana Matthis's new novel, The Unsettled coming soon
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0307949702
ISBN13:9780307949707
Release Date:October 2013
Publisher:Vintage
Length:320 Pages
Weight:0.56 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"
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Published by Leslie Taylor , 1 year ago
What a feat for any writer to come out with their first novel and become a national bestseller and make the Oprah Book Club at the same time. It appears that they are trying to acknowledge that Ms. Mathis has the genuine and down to earth rising of the late August Wilson, but she is nowhere in his league. She does a good job as a great storyteller in bringing to life a real down to earth shattering novel. The reason I did not give her the 5 stars is because the last few chapters of this novel fell like riding in a car and finding out that you ran out of gas. She emptied her tank too soon.
I look forward to what she will do next.
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