02416cam a2200505 i 4500 668997510 TxAuBib 20230113120000.0 220928s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022038753 9781643752464 hardcover 1643752464 hardcover (OCoLC)1311953750 TxAuBib rda Minnicks, Jamila, 1977-, author. Moonrise over New Jessup : a novel / by Jamila Minnicks. First edition. New York, New York : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, an imprint of Workman Publishing Co., Inc., 2023. ©2023. 324 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "It's 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, where residents have largely rejected integration as the means for Black social advancement. She falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities challenge New Jessup's status quo and could lead to the young couple's expulsion-or worse-from the home they hold dear. But as Raymond continues to push alternatives for enhancing New Jessup's political power, 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 upheavals both in and out of town"-- Provided by publisher. 20230208. 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. 1900-1999. African Americans Alabama Fiction. Civil rights movements Alabama History 20th century Fiction. Civil rights movements Fiction. African Americans. Civil rights movements. Race relations. African americans Fiction. Alabama Race relations History 20th century Fiction. Alabama Fiction. Alabama. Fiction. Historical fiction. History. Novels. Historical fiction. Novels. TXDCK