A Mercy

A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of BELOVED and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. A MERCY reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother w [...]
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A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of BELOVED and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. A MERCY reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and of a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.