Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 picked this book earlier in the month as her new pick.
In a statement, Ms. Winfrey likened Ms. Mathis’s book to the fiction of
Toni Morrison.
In
1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in
Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries
a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches
helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies
could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she
raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of the tenderness they
crave. She vows to prepare them for the calamitous difficulty they are
sure to face in their later lives, to meet a world that will not love
them, a world that will not be kind. Captured here in twelve luminous
narrative threads, their lives tell the story of a mother’s monumental
courage and the journey of a nation.
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