All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction · 2021 · Shortlist

Random HouseSeptember 7, 2021history nonfictionISBN 9780812998665

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction	2021	Shortlist

About This Book

Tiya Miles traces the story of a cotton sack passed from an enslaved mother to her daughter at the moment of separation, and recovers three generations of Black women's lives through the object. Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction. Shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize.

About the Author

Tiya MilesAmerican

Tiya Miles is an American historian and author, a professor at Harvard University and a MacArthur Fellow. She specialises in the histories of Native American peoples and African Americans, and the intersection of those histories. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, she studied at Harvard and received her PhD from the University of Minnesota. Read more →