Moonrise Over New Jessup
β Scribed by Jamila Minnicks
- Book ID
- 111135355
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 210 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781643753744
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and enchanting debut about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves at the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama.
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. 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 both hold dear. But as Raymond continues to push alternatives for enhancing New Jessup's political power, Alice must find a way...
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