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Beyond Fiction Book Club - All That She Carried by Tiya Miles (In-Person)

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All That She Carried - The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake  by Tiya Miles

Join us to discuss this month's Beyond Fiction Book Club selection, All That She Carried by Tiya Miles.  Books will be available to check out at the Adult Help Desk.  If you need help acquiring a book, please reach out to Kelly Kuningas at kkuningas@wauclib.org.  

We look forward to reading and discussing with you!

 

 

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out of the archives.
 
WINNER: PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Lawrence W. Levine Award, Darlene Clark Hine Award • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Slate, Vulture, Publishers Weekly

“A history told with brilliance and tenderness and fearlessness.”—Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States