Books by Ayana Mathis (1)
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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie : A Novel by Ayana Mathis EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection • In this "remarkable page-turner of a novel" (Chicago Tribune), one "remarkably resilient woman is placed against the hopes and struggles of millions of African Americans who held this nation to its promise" (The Washington Post). 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 lo... continue