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035 _a(OCoLC)on1450358803
037 _bHarpercollins, 30 Ed Preate Dr Ste 106, Moosaic, PA, USA, 18507
_nSAN 200-2086
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050 0 0 _aPS3610.E693
_bZ33 2025
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100 1 _aJerkins, Morgan,
_eauthor.
_9142339
245 1 0 _aZeal :
_ba novel /
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bHarper,
_c2025.
264 4 _c�2025.
300 _a402 pages ;
_c24 cm
520 _a"The New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing and Caul Baby returns with an epic, multi-generational novel that illuminates the legacy of slavery and the power of romantic love"--
520 _aHarlem, 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 the 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? Sweeping, textured, and meticulously researched, Zeal is both a story of how one generation's choices reverberate through the years and an indelible portrait of an enduring love.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xSocial conditions
_vFiction.
_9142416
650 0 _aFamily secrets
_vFiction.
650 0 _aMan-woman relationships
_vFiction.
650 0 _aGenerational trauma
_vFiction.
_9139552
650 0 _aSlavery
_vFiction.
650 0 _aAfrican American families
_vFiction.
655 7 _aHistorical fiction.
_2lcgft
655 7 _aRomance fiction.
_2lcgft
655 7 _aNovels.
_2lcgft
655 7 _aRomans.
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776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aJerkins, Morgan.
_tZeal
_dNew York : HarperCollins Publisher, 2025.
_z9780063234109
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