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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
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A NEW EDITION OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING NOVELAn Oprah’s Book Club Pick’Remarkable’ Sunday Times’Ms. Mathis has a gift for imbuing her characters’ stories with an epic dimension that recalls Toni Morrison’s writing’ New York Times’Vibrant and compassionate . . . a work of great humanity’ Marilynne Robinson1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a better life. When Hattie marries and gives birth to her children, she raises them with grit and mettle, preparing them for a world that will challenge and wound them. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie tells the story of a mother’s monumental courage, the resilience of human spirit and the myth of the American dream.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.245 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.1 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 352 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2013-8-29 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 009955870X |
| About The Author | Ayana Mathis's first novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie was a New York Times best seller and has been translated into sixteen languages. Her nonfiction has been published in the The New York Times, The Atlantic, Guernica, and Rolling Stone. Mathis is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop. She was born in Philadelphia, and currently lives in New York City where she teaches writing in Hunter College's MFA Program. |
Mathis traces the fates of Hattie's 12 children and grandchildren over the course of the 20th century, simultaneously capturing the voices and daily minutiae of every one of her characters … A complex and engrossing work that has huge commercial hit written all over … Remarkable. |
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| Other text | This fresh, powerful first novel turns the lives of Hattie's children into an epic of America in the 20th century. Tough, truthful, wonderfully controlled writing. |
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