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Book Launch: "Zeal" with Morgan Jerkins & Jacqueline Woodson.
Sat, Apr 26
|The Free Black Women's Library
Join us to celebrate the New York Times bestselling author of "This Will Be My Undoing" and "Caul Baby," Morgan Jerkins who returns with an epic, multi-generational novel that illuminates the legacy of slavery and the power of romantic love.
Time & Location
Apr 26, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
The Free Black Women's Library, 226 Marcus Garvey Blvd
About the Event
About the Author: Morgan Jerkins is the author of Caul Baby, Wandering in Strange Lands, and the New York Times bestseller This Will Be My Undoing. Jerkins has taught at Columbia and Princeton Universities, and has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and the Guardian, among many others. She lives in Brooklyn.
About the Book: 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…