Who Read What: Writers Share Their Favorite Books of 2021

“Who Read What: Writers Share Their Favorite Books of 2021” — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois”, writes of Tiya’s book “All That She Carried” in the Wall Street Journal, ‘In “All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake,” renowned scholar Tiya Miles examines the intersections between material and human history by focusing on a burlap sack that was passed down through generations. …More than the story of the sack and the symbolic love it contained—given by a devoted, enslaved mother whose child is about to be sold away from her—Ms. Miles’s book explains (with a light hand) the importance of historical memory, when some in this country still are intent upon erasing black lives.’ Published December 8, 2021.