All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Binding:Paperback such as Spice Island Coconut

such as Spice Island Coconut Fish Curry

" -- New York Times Book Review

A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory

ISBN: 1420154850

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Binding:Paperback such as Spice Island CoconutNATIONAL 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: Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Harriet Tubman Prize, PEN John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Anisfield Wolf Book Award, Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, Lawrence W. Levine Award,