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My Monticello
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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My Monticello
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:192 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 135 |
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| Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781787303331
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Vintage Publishing
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| Imprint |
Harvill Secker
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| Publication Date |
2 November 2021 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
A powerful call for collectivism and one of the biggest American debuts of 2021 In a time of rolling blackouts and terrible storms battering America, the neighbourhood of 1st Street, Charlottesville is attacked by violent white supremacists. Families, friends and strangers flee for their lives in an abandoned bus, taking refuge in Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's historic plantation home in the hills above town. Over nineteen heart-stopping days the group find ways to care for and sustain one another as the world burns beneath them. Told by Da'Naisha Love, a young Black descendant of Jefferson and Sally Hemings, My Monticello is a searing indictment of racism past and present, and a powerful vision of resistance, hope and love.
Author Biography
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson's writing has appeared in Guernica and the Guardian and has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories 2018, guest edited by Roxane Gay. My Monticello is her debut. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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