My Monticello

A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret social experiment on his own son. A single mother desperate to buy her first home even as the world hurtles toward catastrophe. Each fighting to survive in America.

United by these characters' relentless struggles against reality and fate, My Monticello is a masterful book that bears witness to this country's legacies and explores burdened inheritances and extraordinary pursuits of belonging.