PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780063211070
- Categories [2023], BX, BXOS, F GEN, Fiction, General Fiction
- Author(s) Jennifer Haigh
- Publisher Harpercollins Publishers Inc
- Pages 448
- Format Trade Paperback
- Dimensions 15.3cm x 2.8cm x 22.9cm
- Weight 0.493 kg
product description
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. The work is consuming, the unending dramas of women in crisis. For its patients, Mercy Street offers more than health care; for many, it is a second chance.
But outside the clinic, the reality is different. Anonymous threats are frequent. A small, determined group of anti-abortion demonstrators appears each morning at its door. 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. 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.
Mercy Street is a novel for right now, a story of the polarized American present. 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.