My Monticello
Johnson, Jocelyn Nicole2021
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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 grounds, and finds a kind of shelter. But the terror from their town is coming closer, and soon they have an impossible decision to make.
Main title:
My Monticello / Jocelyn Nicole Johnson.
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Imprint:
London : Harvill Secker, 2021.London : Harvill Secker, 2021.
Collation:
182 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781787303027 (hbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
2536339