A
tangled mercy
a novel
Jordan-Lake, Joy
1963-
creator
author
text
novel
Historical fiction.
wau
2017
2017
monographic
eng
433 pages ; 22 cm
"Told in alternating tales at once haunting and redemptive, A Tangled Mercy is a quintessentially American epic rooted in heartbreaking true events examining the harrowing depths of human brutality and betrayal, and our enduring hope for freedom and forgiveness."--
2015: After the sudden death of her troubled mother, struggling Harvard grad student Kate Drayton walks out on her lecture-- and her entire New England life. She flees to Charleston, South Carolina, the place where her parents met, convinced it holds the key to understanding her fractured family and saving her career in academia. Her mother was researching a failed 1822 slave revolt-- and Kate will continue her work. 1822: Tom Russell, a gifted blacksmith and slave, grappled with a terrible choice: arm the uprising spearheaded by members of the fiercely independent African Methodist Episcopal Church or keep his own neck out of the noose and protect the woman he loves
Joy Jordan-Lake
Includes reading group questions for discussions
n-us-sc
African Methodist Episcopal Church
South Carolina
Charleston
Fiction
Women teachers
Fiction
Mothers
Death
Fiction
Cruelty
Fiction
Charleston (S.C.)
Fiction
813.6
1503946738
9781503946736
9781477823668
1477823662
171017
20201128122851.0
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