The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
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Compact discs.
Unabridged.
Read by Adenrele Ojo, Bahni Turpin and Adam Lazarre-White.
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.
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PUBLISHED
Westminister, MD : Random House, [2013]
Year Published: 2013
Description: 8 sound discs (10 hrs., 17 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780804127271
0804127271
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Ojo, Adenrele.
Turpin, Bahni.
Lazarre-White, Adam, 1969-
SUBJECTS
African American women -- Fiction.
African American families -- Philadelphia -- Fiction.
African Americans -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.