The Twelve Tribes of Hattie is the novel written by Ayana Mathis and is considered as the national bestseller. It tells t about a young woman named Hattie who moves from Georgia to Philadelphia in 1923, as part of the period which is now known as the Great Migration. She raises ten more children after her two firstborn die. The structure of this novel is divided and narrated in chapters by some of her children, her husband and Hattie herself. The book opens with the birth of Philadelphia and Jubilee which quickly captures my interest. The great migration, the early 1900s, a fifteen-year-old mother named Hattie flees Georgia and heads north. Full of hope, she settles in Philadelphia to build a better life. However, she marries August, with…show more content… Her next son, Floyd, leaves home to be a trumpet player and struggles with sexuality and morality. Later, Hattie sends her son Six to the South due to Six beats a boy nearly to death. Afterwards, he decides to stay in the South and be Reverend Six. Hattie leaves her husband August and finds her lover, Lawrence. They become the parent of Ruthie later. However, for the simple reason that Hattie misses her children, she returns to August. Three years later, Hattie gets pregnant again and gives birth to her daughter Ella. Ella is later be adopted by Hattie’s sister, Pearl. Alice marries to a black doctors and lives in a house with servants. Although she wants to take care of Hattie’s son, Billup. Billup betrays her because he finds the full-time job behind Alice’s back. What’s more, he has a relationship with Alice’s maid. Franklin’s gambling and drinking habit causes the failure of his marriage. Hattie’s daughter Bell meets her previous lover Lawrence. Bell uses fake name to seduce him in order to revenge her mother. Unfortunately, Bell’s tricks exposed and dies alone of tuberculosis. Their daughter Cassie is send to asylum because of the mental illness. Cassie’s daughter, Sala is raised by
