New This Week: September 17th

Another week, another New Books Tuesday! This week we’re celebrating the release of TANGLED JOURNEYS, an ambitious historical narrative that tells a multigenerational, multiracial story that invites us into the process of American history making itself. Learn more about the book below and browse all of our new books this month here.

Tangled Journeys: One Family’s Story and the Making of American History by Lori D. Ginzberg

“Ginzberg has hit the ball out of the park with Tangled Journeys. Knitting together sources from Europe, the Caribbean, and North America, Ginzberg traces fragmented records to reveal how slavery and empire collided to create blood kin who could be neither recognized nor acknowledged legally in the United States. The result is a genealogical quilt that reveals the pernicious nature of slavery and also the warmth of kinship via the Sanders family. We learn of the resilience of Black people whose very existence resisted fictions about their erasure.”—Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology