{"id":61697,"date":"2021-10-21T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61697"},"modified":"2021-10-21T00:23:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T00:23:12","slug":"my-monticello-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61697","title":{"rendered":"My Monticello, Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Monticello, Fiction<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Henry Holt & Company<\/a> (an imprint of Macmillan<\/a>)
\n2021-10-05
\n240 pages
\nHardcover ISBN: 9781250807151
\ne-Book ISBN: 9781250807168
\nAudiobook ISBN: 9781250820723
\nCompact Disk ISBN: 9781250820716<\/p>\n

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson<\/a> and Sally Hemings<\/a> 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<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tough-minded, vulnerable, and brave, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson\u2019s precisely imagined debut explores burdened inheritances and extraordinary pursuits of belonging. Set in the near future, the eponymous novella, \u201cMy Monticello,\u201d tells of a diverse group of Charlottesville<\/a> neighbors fleeing violent white supremacists. Led by Da\u2019Naisha, a young Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson<\/a> and Sally Hemings<\/a>, they seek refuge in Jefferson\u2019s historic plantation home<\/a> in a desperate attempt to outlive the long-foretold racial and environmental unravelling within the nation.<\/p>\n

In \u201cControl Negro,\u201d hailed by Roxane Gay<\/a> as \u201cone hell of story,\u201d 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 \u201cpainstakingly mark the route of this Black child too, one whom I could prove was so strikingly decent and true that America<\/a> could not find fault in him unless we as a nation had projected it there.\u201d Johnson\u2019s 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<\/a>, finding himself adrift; a young mixed-race woman who adopts a new tongue and name to escape the landscapes of rural Virginia<\/a> and her family; or a single mother who seeks salvation through \u201cBuying a House Ahead of the Apocalypse.\u201d<\/p>\n

United by these characters\u2019 relentless struggles against reality and fate, My Monticello<\/em> is a formidable book that bears witness to this country\u2019s legacies and announces the arrival of a wildly original new voice in American fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Monticello, Fiction Henry Holt & Company (an imprint of Macmillan) 2021-10-05 240 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781250807151 e-Book ISBN: 9781250807168 Audiobook ISBN: 9781250820723 Compact Disk ISBN: 9781250820716 Jocelyn Nicole Johnson 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,8,15,20,693],"tags":[27446,32033,32034,514,918,477],"class_list":["post-61697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-charlottesville","tag-henry-holt-company","tag-jocelyn-nicole-johnson","tag-macmillan","tag-sally-hemings","tag-thomas-jefferson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61697"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61898,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61697\/revisions\/61898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}