Written with searing intimacy after five years of reporting
from how the “halo effect” cultivates worship (and hatred) of larger-than-life celebrities
the ways they think about sexual orientation
But as Margot is drawn into an adult world she struggles to comprehend
Children will love to press the soft
Zeal: A Novel Claudia Rowe Written with searing intimacy afterHarlem, 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