My Monticello : fiction
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New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
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First edition.
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210 pages : 25 cm.
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Baca Grande Public Library - FICTION | FIC JOHNS | On Shelf |
Canon City Public Library - FICTION | F JOHNSON | On Shelf |
Kent Denver Upper School - SHORT STORY | F JOH | On Shelf |
Limon Memorial Library - FICTION | FIC JOH | On Shelf |
Lyons Library - FICTION | FIC JOH | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
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Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"An irresistibly accessible yet startlingly bold book of short stories and a novella, inspired by Black lives in America and featuring the gripping eponymous work "My Monticello.""--
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 ACMs (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.”
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Johnson, J. N., & Johnson, J. N. (2021). My Monticello: fiction (First edition.). Henry Holt and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Johnson, Jocelyn Nicole and Jocelyn Nicole. Johnson. 2021. My Monticello: Fiction. Henry Holt and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Johnson, Jocelyn Nicole and Jocelyn Nicole. Johnson. My Monticello: Fiction Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Johnson, Jocelyn Nicole,, and Jocelyn Nicole Johnson. My Monticello: Fiction First edition., Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
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