NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, the New Yorker, and the Boston Globe Ms.
Jennifer Haigh, an expert natural storyteller with a keen sense of her characters\' humanity ( New York Times ), has written a groundbreaking novel, a fearless examination of one of the most divisive issues of our time..
Mercy Street is a novel for right now, a story of the polarized American present.
At Timmy\'s, she encounters a random assortment of customers, including Anthony, a lost soul who spends most of his life online, chatting with the mysterious Excelsior11--the screenname of Victor Prine, an anti-abortion crusader who has set his sights on Mercy Street and is ready to risk it all for his beliefs.
As the protests intensify, fear creeps into Claudia\'s days, a humming anxiety she manages with frequent visits to Timmy, an affable pot dealer in the midst of his own existential crisis.
A small, determined group of anti-abortion demonstrators appears each morning at its door.
Anonymous threats are frequent.
But outside the clinic, the reality is different.
For its patients, Mercy Street offers more than health care; for many, it is a second chance.
The work is consuming, the unending dramas of women in crisis.
Her work is gripping, real, and totally immersive, akin to that of writers as different as Richard Price, Richard Ford, and Richard Russo.--Janet Maslin, New York Times The highly praised, extraordinary ( New York Times Book Review ) novel about the disparate lives that intersect at a women\'s clinic in Boston, by New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh For almost a decade, Claudia has counseled patients at Mercy Street, a clinic in the heart of the city.
Haigh is an expertly nuanced storyteller long overdue for major attention.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, the New Yorker, and the Boston Globe Ms
