The Twelve Tribes of Hattie - Softcover

Mathis, Ayana

3.51

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9780804121026: The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804121028 ISBN 13: 9780804121026

Publisher: Random House Large Print, 2012

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Major media event and wonderful surprise awaits in this sharply written and tautly paced new book. The perfect gift for everyone on your list this year and bound to become a classic.

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"Ms. Mathis has a gift for imbuing her characters’ stories with an epic dimension that recalls Toni Morrison’s writing, and her sense of time and place and family will remind some of Louise Erdrich, but her elastic voice is thoroughly her own ― both lyrical and unsparing, meditative and visceral, and capable of giving the reader nearly complete access to her characters’ minds and hearts." (Michiko Kakutani New York Times)

"The opening pages of Ayana’s debut took my breath away. I can’t remember when I read anything that moved me in quite this way, besides the work of Toni Morrison." (Oprah Winfrey)

"‘A vibrant and compassionate portrait of a family hardened and scattered by circumstance and yet deeply a family. Its language is elegant in its purity and rigor. The characters are full of life, mingled thing that it is, and dignified by the writer’s judicious tenderness towards them. This first novel is a work of rare maturity.'" (Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of GILEAD and Orange Prize-winner of HOME)

"‘Beautiful and necessary from the very first sentence. The human lives it renders are on every page lowdown and glorious, fallen and redeemed, and all at the same time. They would be too heartbreaking to follow, in fact, were they not observed in such a generous and artful spirit of hope, in a spirit of mercy, in the spirit of love. A treasure of a novel.’" (Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of TINKERS)

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‘The opening pages of Ayana’s debut took my breath away. I can’t remember when I read anything that moved me I quite this way, besides the work of Toni Morrison.’ Oprah Winfrey

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