Open Book Club - My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

Join us the first Monday of the month for lively discussion with fellow reading enthusiasts! Readers gather the first Monday of the month in the morning at the Morningside Branch and in the evening at the Aalfs Downtown Library. Open Book Club is free and open to the public.

September 12: My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson. A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings is driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studies racism by conducting a secret social experiment on his own son. A single mother is desperate to buy her first home even as the world hurtles toward catastrophe. Each fighting to survive in America. An irresistibly accessible yet startingly bold book of short stories and a novella, all inspired by Black lives in America.

Morningside Branch Library

4005 Morningside Ave.

10:00 – 11:00am

Host or Publisher Sioux City Public Library