Zachary&39s Wings A Novel [Paperback]

When Zachary and Korie meet, their attraction is immediate and powerful. But their passionate affair becomes increasingly troubled by the unresolved conflicts that plague both their lives. Zach is an amiable social worker from a chaotic working class family, who bears the emotional burdens of those around him, while Korie is a Jamaican-born, Ivy League-educated reporter with a fiercely competent exterior that masks her inner turmoil. In this masterful and moving first novel, Rosemarie Robotham explores questions of race, class, sexuality, as well as the obstacles imposed by society -- and the lovers themselves -- as they attempt to claim true and lasting love.Rosemarie Robothamis an editor-at-large atEssencemagazine. A former reporter forLifemagazine, she is the coauthor ofSpirits of the Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century.Her story Jesse appeared in John Henrik Clarke'sBlack American Stories: One Hundred Years of the Best,and she edited the recent anthologyThe Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love.She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.
Contents

PROLOGUE 1983

The Seduction

PART ONE 1973-1983

1:Rebel Dreams

2:Quincy Street

3:Black Power

4:The Seduction (Reprise)

PART TWO 1983-1985

5:True Love

6:Modigliani's Girl

7:Nomads

8:Smoke Signals

PART THREE 1985-1986

9:Going Home

10:The Carpenter's Shadow

11:The Rooms

12:The Secret Savior

EPILOGUE 1987

RestMark RozzoLos Angeles TimesAn unabashed Love story...moves with undeniable momentum, much like its unlikely lovers.Tina McElroy Ansa author ofThe Hand I Fan WithA gem of a novel...a world of passion and tenderness, of fast city living, anl£M