Jamila Minnicks

Broschiertes Buch

Moonrise Over New Jessup

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Jamila Minnicks’ novel Moonrise Over New Jessup (Algonquin Books, 2023),  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 The Sun, CRAFT, Catapult, Blackbird, The Write Launch, and elsewhere, and her piece, Politics of Distraction, 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.   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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Workman Publishing
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 938747
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 138mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9781643755397
• ISBN-10: 1643755390
• Artikelnr.: 67650436