When 16-year-old Hattie's newborn twins, her first with husband August, die from pneumonia in the winter of 1925, it is a devastation that will disfigure her for the rest of her life. Mathis's remarkable debut traces the life of Hattie Shepherd through the eyes of her offspring, depicting a family whose members are distant, fiercely proud, and desperate for connection with their mother. Their lives, captured here in twelve luminous threads, tell the story of a mother’s monumental courage-and a nation's tumultuous journey. She vows to prepare them to meet a world that will not be kind.
Hattie gives birth to nine more children, whom she raises with grit, mettle, and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. 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. This " brutal, illuminating version of the twentieth century African-American experience belongs alongside those of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston" ( Newsday).įull of hope, Hattie settles in Philadelphia to build a better life. In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd, swept up by the tides of the Great Migration, flees Georgia and heads north. "A remarkable page-turner of a novel." - Chicago Tribune.Urn:oclc:869493283 Republisher_date 20180413131934 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 616 Scandate 20180110080814 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Top_six true Tts_version v1. Urn:lcp:twelvetribesofha00ayan:epub:9382d082-04da-4176-a442-17adb5c1d8c4 Extramarc Princeton University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier twelvetribesofha00ayan Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5cc54x4z Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780385350280Ġ307959422 Lccn 2012010779 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:13:16.117164 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1181611 Boxid_2 CH129925 City New York Containerid_2 X0008 DonorĬityofsausalitolibrary Edition 1st ed.
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