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Tiya Miles is from Ohio, "the heart of it all," though now she spends summers in her husband's native Montana. She is the author of All That She Carried (which won a National Book Award for nonfiction and more), and of three prize-winning works of history on the intersections of African American and Native American experience. Her forthcoming book, Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People, will be out in June 2024, right on the heels of her short but sweet exploration of childhoods in nature: Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation (September 2024). Her debut dual time period (historical-contemporary) novel based on her early career research, The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Gh ...more

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	All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake 3.93 avg rating — 8,452 ratings — published 2021 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation 3.53 avg rating — 1,754 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by Tiya Miles (Goodreads Author), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (series_editor) 4.06 avg rating — 1,195 ratings — published 2024 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cherokee Rose 3.69 avg rating — 778 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits 4.06 avg rating — 525 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era 4.24 avg rating — 405 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom 4.18 avg rating — 395 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story 4.16 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country by Tiya Miles (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sharon Patricia Holland (Editor), David A. Chang (Contributor) 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Camp Dissertation: A Humane Guide for Tackling Your Weighty Writing Project 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Tiya Miles answered Richard's question: I shall read your essay, thank you! Having enjoyed all of your books when can look forward to the next one? Hi Richard, Thanks for your very kind words, your interest in the essay, and your question! I'm working on multiple projects right now. The one on the front burner is a cultural history of women in the abolitionist movement. I can't predict when it w See Full Answer
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James was on my summer reading wish list in June, then July, then August. I barely managed to open the book just before the Labor Day weekend, but when I started, I couldn't stop. By page 2, I was both stunned and devoted. This novel is a masterpiece ...more
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I dove into Percival Everett’s The Trees this summer because a friend told me I should read it before starting on Everett’s latest, James, which is high on my to-read list. What I found in The Trees surprised me in a good yet tension-filled way. The ...more
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“Things become bearers of memory and information, especially when enhanced by stories that expand their capacity to carry meaning.”
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“For women, cloth also tended to represent the work of their hands, the female branches of family trees, and notions of the feminine ideal. Passing on a textile, then, symbolized women's ability, creativity, and continuance.”
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“As one historian of slavery and capitalism concluded: “The number of enslaved migrants who made it from the depths of the cotton and sugar frontiers all the way to the free states probably numbered under a thousand during all the years of slavery. That amounts to one-tenth of 1 percent of all forced migrants.”
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