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Named “Most Anticipated” by TIME, People, Publishers Weekly, and Ms. Magazine —
“If ever there was a time for textured art that takes the complicated, often comically ironic, intoxicating love lives of the enslaved serious, it is now. It is Zeal. Morgan Jerkins made it. We can rejoice. Zeal is the rare buoyant and absolutely sturdy work that meets the reader where we are, and refuses to coddle. It is faithful fiction that should have readers and writers talking about this book forever.” — Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy
“In this arresting and riveting love story, Morgan Jerkins lays bare the power of ancestral inheritance and the power to escape it. Zeal steeps us in rich Black history while taking us breathlessly through a contemporary world, braiding together the two seamlessly. I’ll never think of love letters the same way.” — Bridgett M Davis, author of Love, Rita and The World According To Fannie Davis
“There’s always something profound about love in the midst of the historical gauntlet of race. Something powerful about knowing it continues to persist through generations of opposition, though not at all unscathed. What Jerkins does in Zeal is examine that, while asking, what happens if the descendants born of a love-torn people were able to finally live in it, wholly? For their ancestors. And what if that love story felt more like destiny than happenstance. What a beautiful tale.” — Jason Reynolds, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Twenty-Four Seconds from Now
“…a memorable tale of love and legacy.” — Publishers Weekly
“This is literary historical fiction at its finest.” — Scary Mommy
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