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My Monticello | A conversation with Jocelyn Nicole Johnson and Dr. Akilah Cadet

Wed, Oct 12

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My Monticello | A conversation with Jocelyn Nicole Johnson and Dr. Akilah Cadet
My Monticello | A conversation with Jocelyn Nicole Johnson and Dr. Akilah Cadet

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Oct 12, 2022, 7:00 PM

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About the Book

Winner of the Weatherford Award in Fiction A winner of 2022 Lillian Smith Book Awards  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…

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