The twelve tribes of Hattie
By: Ayana Mathis
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781443410779; 9781443410762
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Urban poor; Fiction; Black Women; Coping with hardship; Black Mothers
Description: "In 1923, 17-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia for Philadelphia, where, though her first two babies die because she can't afford medicine, she keeps nine children alive with old southern remedies and sheer love. Saddled with a husband who brings her nothing but disappointment, she prepares her children for a world she knows will not be kind to them. A searing portrait of an unforgettable family, an emotionally transfixing drama of human striving in the face of insurmountable adversity and a ferocious vision of humanity at its most threadbare and elemental."--Publisher.
Notes: "First published in Canada by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd in a hardcover edition: 2012"--Title page verso.