This brutal, illuminating version of the twentieth century African-American experience belongs alongside those of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston. The Seattle Times Accomplished storytelling. Blazes fearlessly into the darkness of divided spirits and hungry hearts. Vogue Like Toni Morrison, the author has a gift for showing just how heavily history weighs on families. We feel the exhilaration of starting over, the basic human need to belong, and the inexorable pull back to a place that, for better and worse, you call home. Huffington Post An intimate, often lyrical daisy-chain of stories. Mathiss characters are those rarest of fictional creations: real living, breathing people. Salon A dazzling debut, rich in language and psychological insight. Magnificently structured, and a sentence-by-sentence treasure-lyric, direct, and true. I cant remember when I read anything that moved me in quite this way, besides the work of Toni Morrison. The New York Times Book Review The opening pages of Ayanas debut took my breath away. As certainly as August Wilson did in the plays of his twentieth-century cycle, Mathis is chronicling our nation. The Washington Post Captivate from the first pages. One remarkably resilient woman is placed against the hopes and struggles of millions of African Americans who held this nation to its promise. spans decades and covers dreams lost, found and denied. The New York Times A remarkable page-turner of a novel. Mathis gives us a haunting-and, yes, hopeful-glimpse of the possibility of redemption and the resilience of the human spirit. A New York Times Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year A Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year An Oprahs Book Club 2.0 selection Review Quotes Astonishingly powerful. Their lives, captured here in twelve luminous threads, tell the story of a mothers monumental courage-and a nations tumultuous journey. She vows to prepare them to meet a world that will not be kind. Hattie gives birth to nine more children, whom she raises with grit, mettle, and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. 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. Full of hope, she settles in Philadelphia to build a better life. Chicago Tribune In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd, swept up by the tides of the Great Migration, flees Georgia and heads north. Book Synopsis A remarkable page-turner of a novel.
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