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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis. A vibrant and compassionate portrait of a family hardened and scattered by circumstance and yet deeply a family. "Mathis spotlights intensely dramatic episodes in the lives of Hattis's nine subsequent children (and one grandchild to make the 'twelve tribes'), galvanizing crises that expose the crushed dreams and anguished legacy of the Great Migration...he writes with blazing insight into the complexities of sexuality, marriage, family relationships, backbone, fraudulence, and racism in a molten novel of lives racked with suffering yet suffused with beauty." 243 page, good condition hardcover w/DJ. ISBN 9780385350280.