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Griot African-American Book Discussion (In-person or Zoom)

All That She Carried by Tiya Miles

2023-02-21 18:30:00 2023-02-21 19:30:00 America/Chicago Griot African-American Book Discussion (In-person or Zoom) The Griot Book Discussion features books by African-American authors. Meets in-person or via Zoom on the third Tuesday of the month. February's selection: All That She Carried by Tiya Miles. Eola Road Branch - ASD Eola Zoom Room, Eola 108 Small Meeting Room

Tuesday, February 21
6:30pm - 7:30pm

Add to Calendar 2023-02-21 18:30:00 2023-02-21 19:30:00 America/Chicago Griot African-American Book Discussion (In-person or Zoom) The Griot Book Discussion features books by African-American authors. Meets in-person or via Zoom on the third Tuesday of the month. February's selection: All That She Carried by Tiya Miles. Eola Road Branch - ASD Eola Zoom Room, Eola 108 Small Meeting Room

Eola Road Branch

ASD Eola Zoom Room, Eola 108 Small Meeting Room

The Griot Book Discussion features books by African-American authors. Meets in-person or via Zoom on the third Tuesday of the month. February's selection: All That She Carried by Tiya Miles.

Monthly book discussion featuring works by African-American authors. You now have the option to attend in-person or on Zoom! Please register and choose your attendance option. Print copies of the book are available for checkout at the Eola Road Branch Adult Reference Desk on the 2nd floor. Email group facilitator Becky Clark at rclark@aurorapubliclibrary.org for more information.

Book description: All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles

In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language.  Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women’s faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of the experience of slavery, and the uncertain freedom afterward, in the United States. All That She Carried is a poignant story of resilience and love passed down against steep odds. It honors the creativity and resourcefulness of people who preserved family ties when official systems refused to do so, and it serves as a visionary illustration of how to reconstruct and recount their stories today. 

AGE GROUP: | Adults - ages 19+ |

EVENT TYPE: | Reading and Literacy |

TAGS: | book discussion | Book Club |

Eola Road Branch

Phone: 630-264-4117
Fax: 630-898-5220
Branch manager
Krista Danis

Hours
Mon, Mar 27 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Tue, Mar 28 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Wed, Mar 29 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Thu, Mar 30 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Fri, Mar 31 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Sat, Apr 01 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Apr 02 1:00PM to 5:00PM

About the branch

This branch shares the Eola Community Center buiding with the Fox Valley Park District. It offers a quiet reading room with a fireplace, study rooms and a family computer lab. The Eola Road Branch has public meeting rooms that may be used for community programs. 

 

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Santori Library - E101 - John C. Dunham Atrium

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Eola Road Branch - Eola Children's Program Room

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Eola Road Branch - Eola Children's Program Room

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West Branch - Meeting Room

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