My Monticello

Explore the concept of belonging and inheritances burdened with the past in this powerful and precisely imagined debut by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson. Featuring a diverse cast of characters fighting to survive America's racial and environmental unraveling, My Monticello takes readers on a journey through a near future where a group of Charlottesville neighbors seek refuge in Thomas Jefferson’s historic plantation home. Johnson's characters all search for a home that's both physical and internal, from a Nigerian widower struggling to find his place in a new city to a single mother desperate to "Buy a House Ahead of the Apocalypse." Seamlessly weaving themes of racism, identity, and survival, My Monticello bears witness to America's complicated legacies and introduces an exciting new voice in fiction.