Angelique Jackson Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s upcoming debut novella, “My Monticello,” is set to receive a film adaptation from Chernin Entertainment for Netflix.The streamer has acquired the rights to Johnson’s novella, which will be published on Oct.
5 in the U.S. through Henry Holt and Co., and via Harvill Secker in the U.K. on Nov. 4.“My Monticello” is set in the near future, after an ecological disaster leads to societal collapse and bands of white nationalist militias run rampant across the country.
A young woman who’s descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings leads a group of refugees to take shelter in Monticello.A finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize, the work has been called “a badass debut by any measure — nimble, knowing,.
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