All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Literary Criticism smells of citrus and the

smells of citrus and the ocean--and is half her age

author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

and the Mercury Retrograde Spread

barren aesthetics distracts from the practice of living with intention

A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Literary Criticism smells of citrus and theNATIONAL 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,