Moonrise over New Jessup a novel
"It's 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, where residents have largely rejected integration as the means for Black social advancement. She falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandest...
| Main Author: | Minnicks, Jamila, 1977- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chapel Hill :
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
"It's 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, where residents have largely rejected integration as the means for Black social advancement. She falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities challenge New Jessup's status quo and could lead to the young couple's expulsion-or worse-from the home they hold dear. But as Raymond continues to push alternatives for enhancing New Jessup's political power, Alice must find a way to balance her undying support for his underground work with her desire to protect New Jessup from the rising pressure of upheavals both in and out of town"-- |
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| Physical Description: |
324 pages ; 23 cm |
| Awards: |
2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction |
| ISBN: |
9781643752464 1643752464 |
| Author Notes: |
Jamila Minnicks is the author of Moonrise Over New Jessup, the 2021 winner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Her work is also published in CRAFT Literary Magazine, The Write Launch, and The Silent World in Her Vase. Her piece, Politics of Distraction , was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, the Howard University School of Law, and Georgetown University. She lives in Washington, DC. |