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Author:

Mathis, Ayana.

Title:

The twelve tribes of Hattie / Ayana Mathis.

Edition:

1st large print ed.

Publisher:

Random House Large Print,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

385 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African American women--Fiction.
African American families--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--Fiction.
African Americans--History--History--20th century--Fiction.
Large type books.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0804121028 (lg. print) :
9780804121026 (lg. print) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)815975158

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

NJPD993 -- Clarion Public Library (Clarion)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

NKPD993 -- Eagle Grove Memorial Library (Eagle Grove)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

TPPB062 -- Schroeder Public Library (Keystone)

GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)

BVPE851 -- Nevada Public Library (Nevada)

W7PA017 -- Public Resource Technology Center (Orient Public Lib) (Orient)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)

VNPA334 -- Westgate Public Library (Westgate)