~ Hardcover

~ Winner of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award for 1st Novelist - 2013

A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration through the trials of one unforgettable family . . .

Beautiful and devastating, Ayana Mathis’s The Twelve Tribes of Hattie is a wondrous, glorious, harrowing, unexpectedly uplifting, and blazing with life portrait of striving in the face of insurmountable adversity, an indelible encounter with the resilience of the human spirit, and the driving force of the American dream. 

"Mathis 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.” -- Booklist