The Twelve Tribes of Hattie - Couverture souple

Mathis, Ayana

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1443410772 ISBN 13 : 9781443410779

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2013

Synopsis

Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Pick!

In 1923, seventeen-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. Their trials are the trials on which the history of America was forged, a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, and a force stronger than love or trouble: the determination to get by and get through. 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, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie introduces a writer of the very first order.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

AYANA MATHIS’s first novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, was a New York Times bestseller and the second selection for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0. It has been translated into sixteen languages. Mathis’s non-fiction has been published in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Financial Times and Rolling Stone. Mathis is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She was born in Philadelphia and currently lives in New York City, where she teaches in Hunter College’s MFA creative writing program.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1443410772
• ISBN 13: 9781443410779
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
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