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Country United States Publication date 1996 Pages 261 pp Originally published 1996 Genre Novel | 3.4/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (hardback) ISBN 0-374-11550-8 Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Followed by In Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden Awards Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize Similar In Sunlight - In a Beautiful, Not Where I Started From, St Burl's Obituary, I Got Somebody in Staunt, Siam: Or - The Woman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Book of Mercy is the debut novel of the American writer Kathleen Cambor.
Narrated in alternate chapters by Edmund Mueller, an 83-year-old retired Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania firefighter, and his daughter, Anne, a 42-year-old psychiatrist and single mother, the novel weaves a family saga of two Catholic German-Americans.
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The Book of Mercy Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA