Community Read Book Club: January 15, 7pm over Zoom
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
Dear Readers,
I woke up to a light dusting of snow. Winter is upon us.
I hope you can take a break from the holiday festivities to read our next book and then join us for our next Community Read Zoom book discussion. –Mary Skoy, group co-facilitator
From the publisher: “In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits a rough cotton bag, called Ashley’s Sack, embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love, passed down through generations.
“In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose gave this sack filled with a few precious items to her daughter, Ashley, as a token of love and to try to ensure Ashley’s survival as well. Soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold.” Read more —>
Awards:
- 2021 National Book Award — Nonfiction
- 2022 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award — Nonfiction
- 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award — Best Nonfiction
- 2022 Darlene Clark Hine Award — Best Book in African American Women’s and Gender History
- 2022 Lawrence W. Levine Award — Best Book in American Cultural History
- 2022 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award — Nonfiction (Phi Beta Kappa)
- 2022 Massachusetts Book Award — Nonfiction
- 2022 Frederick Douglass Book Prize — Nonfiction
- 2022 Cundhill History Prize — Best Book
- 2022 Harriet Tubman Book Prize — Best Nonfiction Book
