Zeal is available for check out a t the branch. It is also available on Libby as an ebook and audiobook and Hoopla as an ebook and audiobook.
\n\nSummary:
\nHarlem\, 2019. Ardelia a nd Oliver are hosting their engagement party. As the guests get ready to l eave\, he hands her a love letter on a yellowing\, crumbling piece of pape r... Natchez\, 1865. Discharged from the Union Army as a free man after th e 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 c atches the eye of a woman working there\, who's determined to thwart his e fforts to find his beloved. After tragedy strikes\, Harrison resigns himse lf to a life with her. Meanwhile in Louisiana\, the newly free Tirzah is t eaching at the Freedmen's School\, and discovers an advertisement in the l ocal 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 intertwin es the stories of these star-crossed lovers and their descendants. As Tirz ah's family moves across the country during the Great Migration\, they cha llenge authority with devastating consequences\, while of the legacy of he artbreak and loss continues on in the lives of Harrison's progeny. When Ar delia meets Oliver\, she finds his family's history is as full of secrets and omissions as her own. Could their connection be a cosmic reconciliatio n satisfying the unfulfilled desires of their ancestors\, or will the weig ht 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 en during love.
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