{"product_id":"moonrise-over-new-jessup-9781643752464","title":"Moonrise Over New Jessup","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"With compelling characters and a heart-pounding plot, Jamila Minnicks pulled me into pages of history I'd never turned before.\"―Barbara Kingsolver, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eDemon Copperhead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, an enchanting and thought-provoking debut novel about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves on Alabama soil during the Civil Rights Movement. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 both hold dear. As they marry and raise children together, 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 upheaval from inside, and outside, their side of town. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 celebration of Black joy and a timely examination of the opposing viewpoints that attended desegregation in America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Longlisted for The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJamila Minnicks'\u003c\/b\u003e novel \u003ci\u003eMoonrise Over New Jessup (Algonquin Books, 2023), \u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Sun, CRAFT, Catapult, Blackbird, The Write Launch\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere, and her piece, \u003ci\u003ePolitics of Distraction\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jamila is a graduate of the University of Michigan, the Howard University School of Law, and the Georgetown University Law Center. She lives in Washington, DC. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Algonquin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50605334757650,"sku":"9781643752464","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7572606f-0cd6-41d3-91ea-e0f25d201215.jpg?v=1732274552","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/moonrise-over-new-jessup-9781643752464","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}