What We Carry

  • What We Carry: Stories Black Women Never Tell
    By Vicki Alexander, Aneka Boykin, Monique Blodgett

    What We Carry is just the beginning. As the ten writers in this book can attest, some of our stories, when read aloud to each other, brought out the depth of pain in our very souls.

  • What We Carry: A Memoir
    By Maya Shanbhag Lang

    Unable to remember or keep track of the stories she once told her daughter—stories about her life in India, why she immigrated, and her experience of motherhood—Maya’s mother divulges secrets about her past that force Maya to ...

  • What We Carry: A Novel
    By Kalyn Fogarty

    WINNER OF THE 2021 AMERICAN BOOK FEST BEST BOOK AWARD Fans of Caroline Leavitt will relish this rich, complex novel born of the author's own loss and grief, about how one can overcome tragedy through bravery and self-discovery.

  • What We Carry
    By Dorianne Laux

    Dorianne Laux's poetry is a poetry of risk; it goes to the very edge of extinction to find the hard facts that need to be sung. What We Carry includes poems of survival, poems of healing, poems of affirmation and poems of celebration.

  • What We Carry: A Memoir
    By Maya Shanbhag Lang

    Unable to remember or keep track of the stories she once told her daughter—stories about her life in India, why she immigrated, and her experience of motherhood—Maya’s mother divulges secrets about her past that force Maya to ...