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SUMMARY:"Night Flyer" by Tiya Miles - Library of Congress National Book Festival 2024
DESCRIPTION:LOC National Book Festival 2024 \nEpisode Description:\nIn partnership with Maryland Public Television and other local PBS stations\, PBS Books Heather-Marie Montilla is joined by author Tiya Miles to discuss her latest book Night Flyer as the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival author featured this week by PBS Books. \nWith her characteristic tenderness and imaginative genius\, Miles explores beyond the stock historical grid to weave Tubman’s life into the fabric of her world. Harriet Tubman traversed many boundaries\, and thanks to Miles\, she becomes an even clearer and sharper signal from the past\, one that can help us to find a more just and sustainable path. \nThe 24th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington\, D.C.\, on Saturday\, August 24\, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. \nAbout the Book:\nHarriet Tubman is among the most famous Americans ever born and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she’s a figure more out of myth than history\, almost a comic-book superhero. Despite being barely five feet tall\, unable to read\, and suffering from a brain injury\, she managed to escape from her own enslavement\, return again and again to lead others north to freedom without loss of life\, speak out powerfully against slavery\, and then become the first American woman in history to lead a military raid\, freeing some seven hundred people. You could almost say she’s America’s Robin Hood\, a miraculous vision\, often rightly celebrated but seldom understood. \nTiya Miles’s extraordinary Night Flyer changes all that. With her characteristic tenderness and imaginative genius\, Miles explores beyond the stock historical grid to weave Tubman’s life into the fabric of her world. She probes the ecological reality of Tubman’s surroundings and examines her kinship with other enslaved women who similarly passed through a spiritual wilderness and recorded those travels in profound and moving memoirs. What emerges\, uncannily\, is a human being whose mysticism becomes more palpable the more we understand it—a story that offers us powerful inspiration for our own time of troubles. Harriet Tubman traversed many boundaries\, inner and outer. Now\, thanks to Tiya Miles\, she becomes an even clearer and sharper signal from the past\, one that can help us to echolocate a more just and sustainable path. \nGuest Biography:\nTiya Miles\nTIYA MILES is the Michael Garvey Professor of History at Harvard University\, the author of five prize-winning works on the history of slavery and early American race relations\, and a 2011 MacArthur Fellowship recipient. She was the founder and director of the Michigan-based ECO Girls program\, and she is the author of the National Book Award–winning\, New York Times best-selling All That She Carried. She lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and Bozeman\, Montana.
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