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- ISBN8233339431
- EAN9798233339431
- Date de parution15/02/2026
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- ÉditeurLinda Balsamo
Résumé
Alberta Jones: Unburied is a gripping alternative-history thriller inspired by the true life-and unsolved death-of Louisville trailblazer Alberta O. Jones. Louisville, 1965. Alberta Jones is everything the system was built to keep out: a Black woman attorney who became a prosecutor, a voter-registration organizer who understands the courthouse isn't just law-it's power. When she gets too close to the wiring behind "community stability, " the machine doesn't argue with her in public.
It removes her. A car door. A river. A headline funeral. But the body they "find" isn't Alberta's. Hidden in church basements and moved through quiet networks, Alberta chooses the hardest path: disappear long enough to build proof that can't be buried, bribed, or "misfiled." While Louisville mourns the woman it thinks is dead, she assembles a federal-facing case-affidavits from terrified registrants, contradictions in the autopsy record, money trails disguised as outreach, and a committee that runs the city like a private club.
Then she returns at the moment they think they've won. What follows isn't a fairytale of perfect justice-it's the kind of justice that actually happens: indictments, resignations, careers collapsing, and a city forced to look at what it did to keep power where it wanted it. And when the dust settles, Alberta stands before the next generation and tells them the truth nobody puts on plaques:The system doesn't give you firsts-you take them.
And you pay. Alberta Jones: Unburied is a story of survival, strategy, and Black civic power-where the river was supposed to be the ending, but a woman refused to stay buried.
It removes her. A car door. A river. A headline funeral. But the body they "find" isn't Alberta's. Hidden in church basements and moved through quiet networks, Alberta chooses the hardest path: disappear long enough to build proof that can't be buried, bribed, or "misfiled." While Louisville mourns the woman it thinks is dead, she assembles a federal-facing case-affidavits from terrified registrants, contradictions in the autopsy record, money trails disguised as outreach, and a committee that runs the city like a private club.
Then she returns at the moment they think they've won. What follows isn't a fairytale of perfect justice-it's the kind of justice that actually happens: indictments, resignations, careers collapsing, and a city forced to look at what it did to keep power where it wanted it. And when the dust settles, Alberta stands before the next generation and tells them the truth nobody puts on plaques:The system doesn't give you firsts-you take them.
And you pay. Alberta Jones: Unburied is a story of survival, strategy, and Black civic power-where the river was supposed to be the ending, but a woman refused to stay buried.
