
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Oprah's Book Club 2.0
Ayana Mathis(Author)
Vintage Books (Publisher)
Published on 8. October 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-307-94970-7 (ISBN)
Description
"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. Full of hope, she 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.
A New York Times Notable Book
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year
In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd, swept up by the tides of the Great Migration, flees Georgia and heads north. Full of hope, she 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.
A New York Times Notable Book
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
250 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-307-94970-7 (9780307949707)
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AYANA MATHIS is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie is her first novel. Originally from Philadelphia, she lives in Brooklyn.