Summary: The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis is one of our two Book Club books of the week. Find out what our reading group made of it in our podcast... Set against the background of the Great Migration, in which six million black Americans headed north over a period of six decades to escape the iniquities of Jim Crow, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis tells in turn the stories of one woman, her eleven children, and one grandchild – the twelve tribes of the title. A startlingly accomplished novel which will leave you feeling both stimulated and moved. The perfect book club book, in short. Read a sample of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie Read our interview with Ayana Mathis from last year’s Cheltenham Literature Festival The Book Club Podcast We think our Book Club selection are books not only worth reading, but worth talking about. Each week, we're bringing together a group of Waterstones Cardholders and our own booksellers to talk about our Book Club book of the week. You can download the discussion as a podcast via iTunes. You can Reserve & Collect The Twelve Tribes of Hattie at your local Waterstones bookshop (http://bit.ly/H1ma07), buy it online at Waterstones.com (http://bit.ly/19MNsx2), or in ePub (http://bit.ly/19MNrcq)
