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Barcode30053003860957
StatusIn Process - Materials
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call NoF JERK
Title Zeal : a novel / Morgan Jerkins.
Author Jerkins, Morgan, author.
CollectionOn Order Materials
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In Process - MaterialsParis-Bourbon30053003860957F JERK4/18/2025 In Process - Materials

Catalog Details

Personal Name Jerkins, Morgan, author.
Title Statement Zeal : a novel / Morgan Jerkins.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025]
Physical Description 402 pages ; 24 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Summary, Etc. "Harlem, 2019. Ardelia and Oliver are hosting their engagement party. As the guests get ready to leave, he hands her a love letter on a yellowing, crumbling piece of paper... Natchez, 1865. Discharged from the Union Army as a free man after the war's end, Harrison returns to Mississippi to reunite with the woman he loves, Tirzah. Upon his arrival at the Freedmen's Bureau, though, he catches the eye of a woman working there, who's determined to thwart his efforts to find his beloved. After tragedy strikes, Harrison resigns himself to a life with her. Meanwhile in Louisiana, the newly free Tirzah is teaching at a freedmen's school, and discovers an advertisement in the local paper looking for her. Though she knows Harrison must have placed it, and longs to find him, the risks of fleeing are too great, and Tirzah chooses the life of seeming security right in front of her. Spanning over a hundred and fifty years, Morgan Jerkins's extraordinary novel intertwines the stories of these star-crossed lovers and their descendants. As Tirzah's family moves across the country during the Great Migration, they challenge authority with devastating consequences, while of the legacy of heartbreak and loss continues on in the lives of Harrison's progeny. When Ardelia meets Oliver, she finds his family's history is as full of secrets and omissions as her own. Could their connection be a cosmic reconciliation satisfying the unfulfilled desires of their ancestors, or will the weight of the past, present and future tear them apart?"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African Americans Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Slavery Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Romance fiction. lcgft

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