Merry Benezra is the author of Special Karma, A Zen Novel of Love and Folly.

She lives in Nova Scotia.

Merry’s current project, Kinship, is a historical novel set during the last year of the American Civil War.

An unforgettable tale of braided destinies, Kinship charts the moral awakening of a Virginia slaveowner’s daughter who finds herself caught up in an enslaved teenager’s stratagem to live her life in freedom and entirely on her own terms.