In the novella, My Monticello, a young black college student who is a descendent of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings is forced from her neighborhood by a white militia. Set in the near future, this diverse group of Charlottesville neighbors fleeing white supremacists take refuge in Jefferson's historic plantation home, Monticello. My Monticello is Jocelyn Nicole Johnson's fiction debut. It was a finalist for the Kirkus Fiction Prize, National Book Critics Award and long listed for a Pen/Faulkner Fiction award.
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