Welcome To Braggsville

"T. Geronimo Johnson’s timely novel is a tipsy social satire about race. A white, working-class Southerner named D’aron Davenport gets a scholarship to Berkeley — or “Berzerkeley.” Once there, he’s inspired by an alt history course to return to his hometown of Braggsville with some classmates to scrutinize the town’s annual Civil War re-enactment. As social satirist, Johnson is an equal opportunity mocker. The smugness of the elite university classroom is mirrored by the anti-intellectualism of Braggsville. Welcome to Braggsville deploys stream-of-consciousness poetry, fantasy and straight-up realism to explore the ways Americans miscommunicate when we try to talk about race."