Binding: Paperback
Description: A badass debut by any measure nimble knowing and electrifying. Colson Whitehead Pulitzer Prize - winning author of The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle". My Monticello is quite simply an extraordinary debut from a gifted writer with an unflinching view of history and what may come of it." The Washington Post Winner of the Weatherford Award in Fiction A winner of 2022 Lillian Smith Book Awards One of the Women's National Book Association's 2022 Great Group Reads Named one of the best books of 2022 by WGN Radio A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret social experiment on his own son. A single mother desperate to buy her first home even as the world hurtles toward catastrophe. Each fighting to survive in America. Tough - minded vulnerable and brave Jocelyn Nicole Johnson's precisely imagined debut explores burdened inheritances and extraordinary pursuits of belonging. Set in the near future the eponymous novella My Monticello tells of a diverse group of Charlottesville neighbors fleeing violent white supremacists. Led by Da Naisha a young Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings they seek refuge in Jefferson's historic plantation home in a desperate attempt to outlive the long - foretold racial and environmental unravelling within the nation. In Control Negro hailed by Roxane Gay as one hell of story a university professor devotes himself to the study of racism and the development of AC Ms (average American Caucasian males) by clinically observing his own son from birth in order to painstakingly mark the route of this Black child too one whom I could prove was so strikingly decent and true that America could not find fault in him unless we as a nation had projected it there. Johnson's characters all seek out home as a place and an internal state whether in the form of a Nigerian widower who immigrates to a meager existence in the city of Alexandria finding himself adrift; a young mixed - race woman who adopts a new tongue and name to escape the landscapes of rural Virginia and her family; or a single mother who seeks salvation through Buying a House Ahead of the Apocalypse. United by these characters relentless struggles against reality and fate My Monticello is a formidable book that bears witness to this country's legacies and announces the arrival of a wildly original new voice in American fiction.
Title: My Monticello Fiction
Author(s): Johnson Jocelyn Nicole
Publisher: Henry Holt And Co.
Barcode: 9781250848536
Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/11/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction