My Monticello Fiction

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, Aja Naomi King, January LaVoy, Landon Woodson, LeVar Burton, Ngozi Anyanwu, Tomiwa Edun

eAudio - 2021

An AudioFile Earphones Award winnerRead by a full cast of narrators, featuring LeVar Burton and Aja Naomi King "A badass debut by any measure—nimble, knowing, and electrifying." —Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle"...'My Monticello' is, quite simply, an extraordinary debut from a gifted writer with an unflinching view of history and what may come of it." — The Washington PostWinner of the Weatherford Award in FictionA winner of 2022 Lillian Smith Book AwardsA 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 o...wn son. A single mother desperate to buy her first home even as the world hurtles toward catastrophe. Each... more