My Monticello: Fiction Johnson Jocelyn Nicole
My Monticello: Fiction Johnson Jocelyn Nicole A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A single mother desperate to buy her…
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My Monticello: Fiction Johnson Jocelyn Nicole
A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A single mother desperate to buy her first home even as the world hurtles toward catastrophe. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret social experiment on his own son.
Set in the near future, the eponymous novella, "My Monticello," tells of a diverse group of Charlottesville neighbors fleeing violent white supremacists. 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. 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