Mercy Train: A Novel

A rich, luminous novel of three remarkable women connected across a century by a family secret and by the fierce brilliance of their love

Samantha's mother has been dead almost a year when the box arrives on her doorstep. In it, she finds recipe cards, keepsakes, letters-relics of her mother Iris's past. But as Sam sifts through these family treasures, she uncovers evidence that her grandmother, Violet, had a much more difficult childhood then she could have ever imagined. And Sam, a strugg...