Zeal : a novel
Jerkins, Morgan2025
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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.
Main title:
Zeal : a novel / Morgan Jerkins.
Author:
Jerkins, Morgan, author
Imprint:
London : Harper, 2025.
Collation:
416 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780063234086 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6G
LC class:
PS3610.E693
Local class:
FT
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4192081