Meet the Recently Announced 2021 National Book Award Winners & Runners-Up

“Meet the Recently Announced 2021 National Book Award Winners & Runners-Up” — The Mary Sue introduces the 2021 National Book Award winners. From their description of Tiya’s All That She Carried, “In addition to the anthropological elements, Miles unpacks the metaphorical and invaluable elements of these objects. Historian Tiya Miles gives us a narrative, object history, and social history of this family and relates it to the wider shared experience of Black Americans through and after slavery.” Published November 22, 2021.