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3.48 AVERAGE
3.48 AVERAGE
This was a wonderfully told history of one women's difficult life and the lives of her children.
Great characterizations and stories of Hattie's 11 children and one granddaughter
3 1/2 our of 5 stars. I probably would have given it 4 but the last two chapters really fell short. Up until then, I enjoyed each child's story. I definitely enjoyed how it was written with each chapter being the story of one (or two) of Hattie's children and each chapter being further down the timeline (with flashbacks to their upbringing). It was an interesting way to tell a story.
I loved this book— beautifully written, honest, and at times, devastating— it chronicles the story of each of Hattie’s children between 1920 or so to 1980. Raw in its candor and thoughtfully woven together, each story was more interesting than the one preceding it, and I found myself so connected to Hattie as a matriarch and all that she had been through across decades. I don’t even know where or how I got the book, but found it on our shelves, fell into it deeply, and highly recommend.
I will give rating 2.8 of 5 stars.. It is really under my expectation..a few chapter iam enjoys to read it but then the others getting boring.. I can't found any excitement when the story is end.. hmm
I wanted to know more about Hattie but i guess learning about her through her children was the most she would allow anyone to know about her.
This was a good book, but frustrated me. It is written from the perspective of Hattie's (many) children and each chapter switches to a different point of view. The stories were all engaging, the frustration comes from the fact that they all end too soon. I felt no sense of closure at the end of a narrative; I just wanted to know when we'd return to the story and find out what happened next. That never happened. I finished the book with a vague sense of longing and wondering over the unknown fates of each character.
In the line of Olive Kitteridge and Interpretation of Maladies...however, just doesn't quite reach the same heights. 3+
What really attracted me to this book how it jumped through periods of history. I thought that the author kept me wanting to know more about each character, which I thought was well done. However, it did leave me with a lot of questions that I wished had been answered :). I want, want, want to know what happened to all of the kids! Mathis did creatively just enough to provide snapshots of the all of Hattie's children. The reader is able to learn about Hattie through the eyes of her children and their perceptions of their mother. I did think that the novel was more of a collection of short stories than a novel, but they were vaguely connected through the lives of family members. Honestly, I was shocked when the book was over! I thought it was interesting that Oprah added her comments and connections that were linked to some of the passages.