TY - BOOK AU - Mathis,Ayana TI - The twelve tribes of Hattie SN - 9780385350280 AV - PS3613.A82847 T76 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - African American women KW - Fiction KW - African American families KW - Pennsylvania KW - Philadelphia KW - African Americans KW - Migrations KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Historical fiction KW - Domestic fiction N2 - Traces the story of Great Migration-era mother Hattie Shepherd, who in spite of poverty and a dysfunctional husband uses love and Southern remedies to raise nine children and prepare them for the realities of a harsh world ER -