{"product_id":"twelve-tribes-of-hattie-hc","title":"Twelve Tribes of Hattie HC","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB 2.0 SELECTION \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"A remarkable page-turner of a novel.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd, swept up by the tides of the Great Migration, flees Georgia and heads north. This \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ebrutal, illuminating version of the twentieth century African-American experience belongs alongside those of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNewsday).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFull of hope, Hattie settles in Philadelphia to build a better life. Instead she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment, and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins are lost to an illness that a few pennies could have prevented. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHattie gives birth to nine more children, whom she raises with grit, mettle, and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. She vows to prepare them to meet a world that will not be kind. Their lives, captured here in twelve luminous threads, tell the story of a mother’s monumental courage—and a nation's tumultuous journey.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52452044374247,"sku":null,"price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/3397\/3991\/files\/41zausGx6tL.webp?v=1785872329","url":"https:\/\/friendsmvl.org\/products\/twelve-tribes-of-hattie-hc","provider":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}