This Dark Road to Mercy.
When their mother dies unexpectedly, twelve-year-old Easter and six-year-old Ruby are shuffled into foster care. But just as they settle into their new life, their errant father, Wade, reappears and steals the girls away. Narrated in alternating voices that are at once captivating and heartbreaking, this is a story about the emotional pull of family and a primad desire to outrun a past.
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- ISBN: 9780062088253
- ISBN: 0062088254
- ISBN: 9780062278449
- Physical Description: 240 pages
- Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2014.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Marshall Public Library | GF CAS (Text) | 33391000182716 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
This Dark Road to Mercy : A Novel
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This Dark Road to Mercy : A Novel
The critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home--hailed as "a powerfully moving debut that reads as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird" (Richmond Times Dispatch)--returns with a resonant novel of love and atonement, blood and vengeance, set in western North Carolina, involving two young sisters, a wayward father, and an enemy determined to see him pay for his sins. After their mother's unexpected death, twelve-year-old Easter and her six-year-old sister Ruby are adjusting to life in foster care when their errant father, Wade, suddenly appears. Since Wade signed away his legal rights, the only way he can get his daughters back is to steal them away in the night. Brady Weller, the girls' court-appointed guardian, begins looking for Wade, and he quickly turns up unsettling information linking Wade to a recent armored car heist, one with a whopping $14.5 million missing. But Brady Weller isn't the only one hunting the desperate father. Robert Pruitt, a shady and mercurial man nursing a years-old vendetta, is also determined to find Wade and claim his due. Narrated by a trio of alternating voices, This Dark Road to Mercy is a story about the indelible power of family and the primal desire to outrun a past that refuses to let go.