Buxton, Iowa (Novel)
Buxton, Iowa conjures into being the lives of residents within a fully-integrated coal-mining town founded amidst the rise of segregation and racist violence, fighting both their own inborn biases and the hostile world that surrounds them, and hoping to realize the promise of liberty and opportunity in a nation searching for a more perfect union.
“Fiction, and this project in particular, reaches where archives cannot. It recovers what history buried and society erased, proving that imagination is our most powerful tool against forgetting.”
Michaeljulius Y. Idani is an Atlanta-based writer of fictions. A Fulbright Scholar at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, he earned his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa. His work has been supported by the Hambidge Center, Kimbilio, Monson Arts, Periplus, and the Georgia Writers Association, among others.
Visit Michaeljulius’ website: www.idani.com