a city reader

I never heard of Juneteenth until a novel by Ralph Ellison published after he’d died called Juneteenth came out 20 years ago. I didn’t know if he’d made the name up just for an interesting curious title for a book. The sound of it fascinated me. I read reviews and that explained it. I bought the book. I don’t remember if I read it all. But I had to have it as addictive readers often have to have important new books.