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Morning Book Group March - June 2023 |
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Black cake : a novel
by Charmaine Wilkerson
Two estranged siblings try to reclaim the closeness they once shared while trying to piece together their late mother's life story and fulfill her last request of sharing a traditional Caribbean black cake "when the time is right."
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The thread collectors : a novel
by Shaunna J. Edwards
In 1863, a young black woman, who embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army, crosses paths with a Jewish seamstress who helps her discover that even the most delicate threads have the capacity to save us.
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All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
by Tiya Miles
"In 1850s South Carolina, just before nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother, Rose, gave her a sack filled with just a few things as a token of her love. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter, Ruth, embroidered this history on the bag--including Rose's message that "It be filled with my Love always." Historian Tiya Miles carefully follows faint archival traces back to Charleston to find Rose in the kitchen where she may have packed the sack for Ashley. From Rose's last resourceful gift to her daughter, Miles then follows the paths their lives and the lives of so many like them took to write a unique, innovative history of the lived experience of slavery in the United States"
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Gilded mountain : a novel
by Kate Manning
A young 1900s Colorado woman starts work at a wealthy mine-owner's manor house and is fascinated by luxury around her until she discovers the family's philosophy is at odds with the unfair labor practices that built their fortune.
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