This Here is Love with Princess Joy L. Perry

Sat, 06 Sep, 2025 at 11:00 am

This Here is Love with Princess Joy L. Perry

Book People Richmond

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Sat, 06 Sep, 2025 at 11:00 am

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10464 Ridgefield Parkway, Henrico, VA, United States, Virginia 23233

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Sat, 06 Sep, 2025 at 11:00 am to 01:00 pm (EDT)

10464 Ridgefield Parkway, Virginia 23233

10464 Ridgefield Pkwy, Henrico, VA 23233-3548, United States

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This Here is Love with Princess Joy L. Perry
As the seventeenth century burns to a close in Tidewater, Virginia, America's character is wrought in the fires of wealth, race, and freedom.

This Here Is Love is a beautiful and heart-drenched debut novel from Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Award winner Princess Joy L. Perry. Opening in 1690s Virginia, readers meet David Cabarrus, the son of a free Negro man who promises he’ll buy himself out of slavery; Bless, the last remaining child of an enslaved woman; and Jack Dane, a Scots-Irish boy who is compelled to embrace an indentured existence in America in order to escape hunger in Britain.

In alternating chapters Perry chronicles the lives and loves of these three characters as their journeys intertwine and diverge over the next twenty years. This rich, multilayered storytelling approach reveals every character’s deep inner struggle and also connects their shared humanity, heartaches, hopes, and dreams. Despite their different backgrounds, each character is on a journey to freedom from bondage, and every character’s path is brightened by moments of profound connection and hope.

Lyrical and evocative, This Here Is Love marks the arrival of an important new American literary voice. With a gift for evoking the complexity of the human condition, Perry does not shy away from painful realities about life, love, and pain, yet she also captures the beauty and love that exist among all of us, all the time. Inspired by deep research, Perry brings historical breadth and personal experience to this timeless narrative.


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This Here is Love with Princess Joy L. Perry
Sat, 06 Sep, 2025 at 11:00 am