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Moonrise Over New Jessup

Moonrise Over New Jessup

Minnicks, Jamila

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 1643755390
ISBN13: 9781643755397
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: Nov 28 2023
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.55
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and Finalist for the Center For Fiction First Novel Prize

It's 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into all-Black New Jessup, where residents have largely rejected integration as the means for Black social advancement. Instead, they seek to maintain, and fortify, the community they cherish on their side of the woods. In this place, Alice falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities challenge New Jessup's longstanding status quo and could lead to the young couple's expulsion--or worse--from the home they each hold dear. As they marry and raise children together, Alice must find a way to balance her undying support for Raymond's underground work with her desire to protect New Jessup from the rising pressure of upheaval from inside, and outside, their side of town.

Based on the history of the many Black towns and settlements established across the country, Jamila Minnicks's heartfelt and riveting debut is both a timely examination of the opposing viewpoints that attended desegregation in America and a celebration of Black joy.

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