April 21, 2024 | 3 pm @ Washington County Public Library
• APRIL 21:Jamila Minnicks,author of “Moonrise Over New Jessup,” speaks at the Washington County Public Library, Abingdon, Va., at 3 p.m. Her novel won the latest PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, sponsored by Barbara Kingsolver. The novel is set in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, with the main character Alice struggling between holding on to the security she has found in New Jessup (an all-Black Alabama town that has rejected integration in favor of a separate existence) versus supporting her love whose secret activism threatens this status quo.Part of the Sunday with Friends series. www.wcpl.net
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Category: Literature