NATIONAL BESTSELLER - AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB 2.0 SELECTION - "A remarkable page-turner of a novel." --Chicago Tribune In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd, swept up by the tides of the Great Migration, flees Georgia and heads north...
Fifty years after the abolition of slavery, two million people left their homes in the South and moved North. The protagonist of this novel, Hattie Shepherd, was part of the Great Migration. She moved to Philadelphia from Georgia, hoping for a better life. Fate has other plans...