A New York Times Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year A Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year
In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd, swept up by the tides of the Great Migration, flees Georgia and heads north. Full of hope, she settles in Philadelphia to build a better life. 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. Hattie gives birth to nine more children, whom she raises with grit, mettle, and not an ounce of the tenderness...
A New York Times Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year A Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year
