THIS HERE IS LOVE by Princess Joy L. Perry - Stowe Center 'Announcing the Stowe Prize for Literary Activism 2026 Shortlist'

STOWE CENTER | January 13, 2026

This Here Is Love
Princess Joy L. Perry

Princess Joy L. Perry’s debut novel is a sweeping, intimate exploration of love, power, and survival in late seventeenth-century Virginia. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers describes the book as “the tenderest of prose and the most compelling of storytelling.” Perry interweaves the lives of Bliss, the last surviving child of her enslaved mother; David, the son of a man who dreams of emancipation; and Jack Dane, a Scottish-Irish child sold into indentured servitude. As their lives collide, the novel asks what love can endure—and what freedom truly means.

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