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My Monticello
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
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Description for My Monticello
Hardback.
'ELECTRIFYING' Colson Whitehead
'ABSOLUTELY UNFORGETTABLE' Roxane Gay
At a time of rolling blackouts and terrible storms battering America, the neighbourhood of First Street, Charlottesville comes under attack by violent white supremacists. A group of friends, families and strangers flee together in an abandoned bus and head for the hills above town.
Led by Da'Naisha Love, they arrive at Monticello, the historic plantation-home of Thomas Jefferson, deserted but for its ghosts. As a young Black descendant of Jefferson and Sally Hemings, Da'Naisha has a complex relationship with the house. Tentative at first, the group explores rooms, forages on the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781787303027
SKU
9781787303027
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
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.
Reviews for My Monticello
Riveting storytelling. This incandescent work speaks not just to the moment, but to history
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A badass debut by any measure - nimble, knowing, and electrifying
Colson Whitehead, twice-Pulitzer Prize winning author of THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD and THE NICKEL BOYS
An electric new literary voice
Esquire
Absolutely unforgettable. Johnson's prose soars ... Read more
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A badass debut by any measure - nimble, knowing, and electrifying
Colson Whitehead, twice-Pulitzer Prize winning author of THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD and THE NICKEL BOYS
An electric new literary voice
Esquire
Absolutely unforgettable. Johnson's prose soars ... Read more