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The twelve tribes of Hattie : a novel

Mathis, Ayana, author

Overview

In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. She vows to prepare them for the calamitous difficulty they are sure to face in their later lives, to meet a world that will not love them, a world that will not be kind. Captured here in twelve luminous narrative threads, their lives tell the story of a mother's monumental courage and the journey of a nation.

• Publisher: Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House company
• Subject: African American women Fiction. / African American families Pennsylvania Philadelphia Fiction. / African Americans Migrations History 20th century Fiction. / Philadelphia (Pa.) Fiction.
• ISBN: 9780307949707

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3613.A82847 T76 2013	1	BOOK	GENERAL