Tears Before Exaltation
Fidelis O Mkparu
9781941861608
326 pages
Harvard Square Editions
Overview
When Ben Ava, a struggling medical student facing insurmountable financial
worries, receives a scholarship offer for a Medical Center in Memphis,
he thinks that his tenuous future is finally secure. But Ben's past will
not leave him alone. His fellow scholarship winner is his old friend
Brenda—a young medical student with extraordinary talent whose troubled
past has made her self-destructive and dangerous. In Memphis, their
lives become increasingly tangled as Ben is pulled into Brenda's orbit.
Soon, he finds himself risking his medical education, his new romance,
and his entire future in the hopes of steering himself and Brenda
through the tumult of their shared loneliness and trauma. Tears Before Exaltation is a literary drama about coping with the past, surviving the present, and
the blurred lines between courage and insanity, hate and love.
Author Bio
Fidelis O. Mkparu is a Harvard-trained cardiologist who has written medical articles for both scientific and lay audiences. His previous
novel, Love’s Affliction, was a 2016 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner for Fiction, a Reader
Views Literary Award Winner for 2015/2016, and a finalist for the 2015
INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award for Multicultural Fiction. He lives in
Canton, Ohio.
