Zeal: A Novel by Jerkins, Morgan and the unattainable call for

and the unattainable call for perfection

life as Ebby knew it shattered as well

and criminalize Black nationalist organizations and their leaders

and the precariousness of his early marriage working in a jazz club with his second wife

“angry and non-compliant”

Zeal: A Novel by Jerkins, Morgan and the unattainable call forHarlem, 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 wars end, Harrison returns to Mississippi to reunite with the woman he loves, Tirzah. Upon his arrival at the Freedmens Bureau, though, he catches the eye of a woman working there, whos determined to thwart