Marching to Zion
A Novel
by Mary Glickman
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Pub Date Nov 12 2013 | Archive Date Nov 25 2013
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Description
The tempestuous, tragic love story of a beautiful Jewish immigrant and a charismatic black man during the early twentieth century
Mags Preacher, a young black woman with
a dream, arrives in St. Louis from the piney woods of her family home
in 1916, hoping to learn the beauty trade. She knows nothing about Jews
except that they killed the Lord Jesus Christ. Then she begins working
for Mr. Fishbein, an Eastern European émigré who fled the pogroms that
shattered his life to become the proprietor of Fishbein’s Funeral Home.
By the time he saves Mags from certain death during the 1917 race riots
in East St. Louis, all her perceptions have changed. But Mr. Fishbein’s
daughter, the troubled redheaded beauty Minerva, is a different matter.
There is something wrong with the girl, something dangerous, something
fateful. And it is Magnus Bailey, Mags’s first friend in the city, who
learns to what heights and depths the girl’s willful spirit can drive a
man.
Marching to Zion is the tragic
love story of Minerva Fishbein and Magnus Bailey, a charismatic black
man and the longtime business partner of Minerva’s father. From the
brutal riots of East St. Louis to Memphis, Tennessee, during the 1920s
and the Depression, Marching to Zion is a tale of passion,
betrayal, and redemption during an era in America when interracial love
could not go unpunished. Readers of Mary Glickman’s One More River
will celebrate the return of Aurora Mae Stanton, who joins a cast of
vibrant new characters in this tense and compelling Southern-Jewish
novel that examines the price of love and the interventions of fate.
***
Mary Glickman is a writer, public relations professional, and fundraiser
who has worked with Jewish charities and organizations. Born on the
south shore of Boston, Glickman studied at the Université de Lyon and
Boston University. While she was raised in a strict Irish-Polish
Catholic family, from an early age Glickman felt an affinity toward
Judaism and converted to the faith when she married. After living in
Boston for twenty years, she and her husband traveled to South Carolina
and discovered a love for all things Southern. Glickman now lives in
Seabrook Island, South Carolina, with her husband, cat, and beloved
horse, King of Harts. Marching to Zion is her third novel. Her first novel, Home in the Morning, has been optioned for film by Jim Kohlberg, director of The Music Never Stopped (Sundance 2011), and her second, One More River, was a 2011 National Jewish Book Award Finalist in Fiction.
A Note From the Publisher
Print ISBN: 978-1-4804-3562-9 *
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4804-3558-2
*This is an uncorrected proof. Please do not quote for publication without checking the final text
Advance Praise
Praise for Marching to Zion:
“A powerful tale of love, hatred, violence, hope, and regeneration. At its
center, lives entwined, are a black man and a Jewish refugee, each as staunch
and tenacious as the Zion they both seek.” —Sonia Taitz, author of The
Watchmaker’s Daughter
“A literary triumph, and easily the best novel I have read this year. Mary
Glickman’s story of hope burns brightly through the darkness, driven by
characters fighting to maintain dignity above all else.” —Sandi Krawchenko
Altner, author of Ravenscraig
“Mary Glickman gives us a nuanced image of our twentieth-century selves, our
society woven into stunning art. I see the Mississippi floods, the Jewish and
African American dance of interconnection, and ultimately our paired journey
toward Zion.” —Carolivia Herron, author of Thereafter Johnnie and Nappy
Hair
"This moving novel . . . . handled with credibility by the talented Glickman . . . . is sustained by the rich period detail and by strong and fully realized characters." —Booklist
"Coincidence or not, the publication of Marching to Zion on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of The March on Washington is a powerful reminder of the discrimination and unspeakable hardships African Americans suffered . . . . Marching to Zion is a memorable story, with a very clear message that the journey is not over." —Jewish Book Council
"Readers who are interested in Southern historical novels examining black-white relationships and those who enjoy good storytelling are the natural audience here." —Library Journal
"Religion isn’t the only thing that stirs Glickman to fervor: she writes in a high-drama, no-holds-barred style when it comes to romance. . . . [an] entertaining novel about sins of the flesh and the redemptive power of belief." —Publishers Weekly
"Glickman skillfully conveys the struggles of African-Americans and Jews during this era. . . ." —Kirkus Reviews
Praise for Home in the Morning:
“Home in the Morning kept me home all morning and most of the afternoon
as well, since I couldn’t stop reading it.” —Lisa Alther, bestselling author of
Kinflicks
“A treasury of tension and compassion.” —Norman Lebrecht, author of
Song of Names, Winner of the 2002 Whitbread Prize
Praise for One More River:
"With fine craft, pivoting back and forth in time, the author illuminates
'Southern' Jews. They are recognizably southern in a regional, secular manner,
familiar in a cultural sense, and, all too familiarly, seen as a group apart.
We are with them as their lives precede and then coincide with two of the most
fought over social issues of the twentieth century: the civil rights movement
and the women’s movement." —The Jewish Book Council
Marketing Plan
* National author appearances
* National media campaign
* National online and print review campaign
* Online and trade advertising campaign
* Display and mobile advertising campaign
* Digital author documentary
* Extensive social media outreach
* Featured on openroadmedia.com and its social entities
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781480435582 |
| PRICE | $16.99 (USD) |
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