A review by kleonard
My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

5.0

My Monticello is a truly harrowing and bleak look at the lives of Black Americans today, and in a dystopian time when a small group of people take refuge in Monticello, where they are surrounded by the reminders of their own ancestors' enslaved pasts. The stories in this collection are very hard-hitting, often leaving me with a sense of despair. But they are important stories that I think white people need to be reading in order to better understand what white supremacy has done, is doing, and will do.