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This Here Is Love

A Novel
Brief Description
1690s, Tidewater, Virginia. Bless, born into slavery and taken by her masters to toil in the house, faces her mother's fury, learning that cruelty can come from any side. David, an enslaved child of a freed father, dreams of the promise of liberty made to him.... Read More
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Three peopleโ€”two enslaved, one indenturedโ€”live beside each other, fighting, and sometimes failing, to be more than their pasts say they should be

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1690s, Tidewater, Virginia. Bless, born into slavery and taken by her masters to toil in the house, faces her mother's fury, learning that cruelty can come from any side. David, an enslaved child of a freed father, dreams of the promise of liberty made to him. Jack, an impoverished Scots-Irish boy, sails to America to be indentured but, in the hellish crossing, finds his hopes fracturing. Yet, somehow, they all will stake a claim to love.

Hurston-Wright Award winner Princess Joy L. Perry tells us a previously unheard storyโ€”one in which characters must carve out choices from the narrowest of circumstances and confront heartrending questions: How far would you go to protect your children from enslavement? How to create a lasting family after being torn from your own? What to value more: a hard-won opportunity or your humanity? This Here Is Love is an unforgettable story from an astonishing new voice.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781324105978

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 August 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 33.0mm

Width: 163.0mm

Height: 236.0mm

Weight: 548g

Pages: 384

About the Author

Princess Joy L. Perry is the recipient of a Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship and a winner of a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award. Her short stories have appeared in All About Skin, African American Review, and Kweli Journal. She lives in Norfolk, Virginia.

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