san_in_ca 's review for:

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis

4.0

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This is the heartbreaking story of Hattie, who at 15 left the South during the Great Migration, to settle with her husband in Philadelphia. We get to know Hattie through the eyes of her many children, each introduced in a separate chapter, and the story spans many decades. I absolutely loved Mathis’s powerful writing style and definitely was engaged in this family’s story, which was so powerful and moving, but also sometimes unsatisfying, offering little resolution to any of the individual stories it told. If anything, I would have liked for the book to be longer and the chapters to be more interconnected. Still, I’d definitely recommend you read it.