08383cam a2200601 4500 232056120 TxAuBib 20150601120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780804127288 080412728X 7e139c0d-536b-48ba-a0ea-c09cd1017a98 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1173895 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Mathis, Ayana. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Oprah's Book Club 2.0) [Libby Audiobook]. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2012. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 282MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 282MB. HTML:The newest Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection. The arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction. A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration through the trials of one unforgettable family. 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. Beautiful and devastating, Ayana Mathis's The Twelve Tribes of Hattie is wondrous from first to last--glorious, harrowing, unexpectedly uplifting, and blazing with life. An emotionally transfixing novel, a searing portrait of striving in the face of insurmountable adversity, an indelible encounter with the resilience of the human spirit and the driving force of the American dream.. "A poetic novel...that focuses less on American progress than on the small but powerful moments that are strung together, like beads on a necklace, to make one long strand of a family's history...Like Toni Morrison, the author has a gift for showing just how heavily history weighs on families, as a learned sense of hope or despair gets passed down from parents to children and dreams die little by little, generation after generation. But if the endless heartbreaks sound melodramatic, Mathis earns your sympathy by making the rare moments of happiness feel simple and true.". HTML:Entertainment Weekly, Grade: A- HTML:"Mathis never loses touch with the geography and the changing national culture through which her characters move. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie is infused with African Americans' conflicted attitudes about the North and the South during the Great Migration...In the long family arc that Mathis describes, the painful life of one remarkably resilient woman is placed against the hopes and struggles of millions of African Americans who held this nation to its promise...One of the best [novels] of 2012.". HTML:Ron Charles, The Washington Post. "An intimate, often lyrical daisy-chain of stories capturing the telling moments in the lives of people who have been harshly and irrevocably marked by the circumstances of their birth...Through them, we understand the way in which dreams and despair are passed between generations. We feel the exhilaration of starting over, the basic human need to belong, and the inexorable pull back to a place that, for better or worse, you call home.". HTML:Megan O'Grady, Vogue. "Full of conflict and emotion...all of the chapters have moments of grace, despair, and hope and different characters will likely resonate with different readers. The range of emotion and experience demonstrates how a family can stretch out in every direction and then be pulled up by the taut cords of love, responsibility, hatred, hope, and support.". HTML:Sessily Watt, Bookslut. "Lush yet deliberate...elegant and sure...a complex and deeply humane story of a mother's ferocious love and failures at loving...In the vivid specificity of Mathis's tale, she is telling a universal story, and it is profoundly consoling.". HTML:Laura Collins-Hughes, The Boston Globe. "Visceral, heart-wrenching...Mathis brings considerable empathic gifts to the detailed realistic snapshots in Hattie's family album, and to the sense of displacement that has contributed to generations of troubles and travails.". HTML:Jane Ciabattari, San Francisco Chronicle. "Raw and intimate...a brutal and poetic allegory of a family beset by tribulations...Mathis tempers the more operatic elements with tenderness and knowing glimpses into the human heart struggling to love...deeply felt.". HTML:Isabel Wilkerson, The New York Times Book Review. "From the first sentence on, Mathis writes vividly and sensitively of one family's journey and struggles over a lifetime, creating a stirring portrait of family, loss, and endurance in the twentieth century...a beautiful tapestry.". HTML:Courtney Allison, Everyday eBook. HTML:"The influence of Toni Morrison will be evident in this remarkable page-turner of a novel that spans decades and covers dreams lost, found, and denied." --Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago Tribune, "Editor's Choice". HTML: . "Brilliant...Mathis' first novel is an unvarnished look at the complexities of race, poverty, family, and motherhood that calls to mind the great works of authors like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker.". HTML:Baltimore Times. "This brutal, illuminating version of the twentieth century African-American experience belongs alongside those of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Zora Neale Hurston.". HTML:Marion Winik, Newsday. "The opening pages of Ayana's debut took my breath away. I can't remember when I read anything that moved me in quite this way, besides the work of Toni Morrison.". Oprah Winfrey. "Mathis renders her characters with vivid strokes, and, like her heroine, she is both compassionate and unsentimental about hardscrabble lives.". HTML:The New Yorker. "A triumph...a stone-cold stunner of a novel...magnificently structured, and a sentence-by-sentence treasure -- lyric, direct, and true.". HTML:David Daley, Salon. "A stirring, soulful novel that spans 60 years and is told in many rich and varied voices. HTML:Shelf Awareness. "Pulses with life and emotion...thrilling.". HTML:Parade. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. The New York Times Best Seller List. Earphones Award. 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