crk90 's review for:

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis

3.0

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The writing is beautiful and the story is complex and evolves in such a promising way...but there was something missing. The stories of each child are heart wrenching, but somewhat lacking. I wish Hattie were a more complete person, but I suppose maybe that’s part of the point of this book, that her flaws were seen by her children and broke them each in some way. But then I just felt like each failure of the children was all Hattie and August’s fault...which also seems incomplete and unfair. A good read, but one that I hoped would’ve given me a little something “more” in the end.