EDITORS’ CHOICE: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week

“9 New Books We Recommend This Week” — All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake is an editors’ choice for The New York Times list of recommended reading the week of June 17: ‘Our critic Jennifer Szalai calls it “a remarkable book, striking a delicate balance between two seemingly incommensurate approaches: Miles’s fidelity to her archival material, as she coaxes out facts grounded in the evidence; and her conjectures about this singular object, as she uses what is known about other enslaved women’s lives to suppose what could have been.”’ Published June 17, 2021.