A Mercy

Synopsis

National bestseller • the acclaimed nobel prize winner reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like beloved, it is the story of a mother and a daughter—a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment. One of the new york times’s 100 best books of the 21st century“spellbinding. Dazzling. [a mercy] stands alongside beloved as a unique triumph. ” —the washington post book worldin the 1680s the slave trade in the americas is still in its infancy.