My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

This is a what if kind of novel. In 2017, a white supremacist drove his car headlong into a peaceful group opposing a Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing a young woman and injuring dozens of others. There was widespread horror and outrage as footage of broken bodies bouncing off the car was broadcast around the world. But what if the tragedy did not shame local white nationalists, but embolden them? When armed vigilantes start burning the homes of black people, Da’Naisha and her neighbors commandeer a city bus; dodging bullets and shattered glass, they escape the conflagration, taking the road towards the Piedmont mountains. She is a Hemings, and they inhabit Monticello as a safe haven. It is on the one hand a horror story and on the other, all too believable.