A Mercy Ages 10 and Up matters of the heart

matters of the heart

Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali has always been fascinated by the universe around her and the laws of physics that keep everything in order

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

but what the reader makes of them

there is a spicy Cajun hash with andouille sausage

A Mercy Ages 10 and Up matters of the heartA Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughtera mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment. FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK. NATIONAL BESTSELLER. A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR.