Books by Tiya Miles
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
by Tiya Miles
*** Winner of the 2022 Cundill History Prize***
“This is a work of historical excavation. It concerns a sack that belonged to a girl called Ashley, who, when she was nine years old, was sold away from her mother Rose. Both were enslaved. This was the 1850s, and the sack was later embroidered by Ashley’s granddaughter, Ruth, who worked this incredible inscription that tells us almost everything we know about the story. This book is what we can know about these women, the discoveries made about their identity, and the thousands of others whose stories cannot be told who experienced unimaginable horror. A people’s trauma.” Read more...
Recent Nonfiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist
Suzannah Lipscomb, Historian
Interviews where books by Tiya Miles were recommended
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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
by Laura Cumming -
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A Flat Place
by Noreen Masud -
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Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
by Madhumita Murgia -
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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
by Naomi Klein -
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
by Tiya Miles -
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How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
by Safiya Sinclair
Recent Nonfiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist, recommended by Suzannah Lipscomb
Recent Nonfiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist, recommended by Suzannah Lipscomb
Since 1996, the Women’s Prize has been awarded the best new novels by female writers. This year, for the very first time, an equivalent prize has been established for female nonfiction writers—whose books receive less coverage and lower advances than those of their male counterparts. Suzannah Lipscomb, historian and chair of the inaugural judging panel, introduces us to the six books that made the 2024 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction shortlist.
