A review by leahtylerthewriter
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by Tiya Miles

See full review in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

"National Book Award winner Tiya Miles has delivered an innovative vision of Harriet Tubman’s life in her groundbreaking biography “Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People.” Pushing past the mythology of Tubman as the “hyperracial oddity” that previous biographers have portrayed, Miles takes painstaking care to present Tubman as a God-fearing freedom fighter in all her life stages. From an adolescent who survives a head injury to a woman who suffers greatly while toiling to free others from enslavement, Tubman was a mortal woman who relied on her faith and connection to nature to persevere..."

https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/national-book-award-winner-humanizes-harriet-tubman-in-night-flyer/DGYWKBPZMJECNAQITX627TNR54/