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 clandestine organi...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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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' novel Moonrise Over New Jessup (Algonquin Books, 2023), won the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, is a finalist for the 2023 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and was longlisted the 2023 Crook's Corner Book Prize. Her short stories and essays are published in The Sun, CRAFT, Catapult, Blackbird, The Write Launch , and elsewhere, and her piece, Politics of Distraction , was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Jamila's work has been supported by the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. |
