By the end of the first chapter I was crying, the plot (or plots rather) suck you in. I enjoyed this book much better than We Sinners, another book about a big family with each chapter told by a different sibling. This one felt much more real, much more down-to-earth, the writing was so much more ...
This was a typical Oprah pick in that it was an very sad story. The main character which this story centers around is Hattie, a mother raising her famiy in the most extreme poverty and the life changing event that affects the way she interacts with her children. Told in the perspective of each of he...
Open-ended, yet the story seems complete.The Twelve Tribes of Hattie is a story of family, promise and generational habits. It begins during The Great Migration in 1923 when Hattie flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia. The young fifteen-year-old marries August and begins a life, she hopes, to b...
A powerful glimpse of family that touches base on all aspects of humanity, good and bad. This novel is filled with universal truths that we've all experienced in one form or another. I liked the flow -- Ayana Mathis wrote a short story for each of Hattie's children, sharing a separate part of the ...
Rating = 3.5 starsAw, hell. How am I supposed to rate this? There's some powerful writing here, but the structure of the novel prevents it from gaining much momentum. Each chapter is devoted to one or two of Hattie's children, and after they get that one chapter, they're mostly abandoned for the re...
I was excited to read this book because I love historical fiction and the story line sounded compelling-- the story of a mother's love and how her children were changed by that love, whether they could feel it or not. My first impression of author Ayana Mathis is that she is skilled in the art of sh...
Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-twelve-tribes-of-hattie.htmlHattie Shepard is a child of the South. At age fifteen in 1923, Hattie leaves Georgia to seek a better life in Pennsylvania. She marries a man named August with hopes for a bright future...
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