TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jordan-Lake,Joy
TI  - A tangled mercy: a novel 
SN  - 1503946738
U1  - 813.6 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Seattle
PB  - Lake Union Publishing, 
KW  - African Methodist Episcopal Church
KW  - South Carolina
KW  - Charleston
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women teachers
KW  - Mothers
KW  - Death
KW  - Cruelty
KW  - Charleston (S.C.)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes reading group questions for discussions
N2  - "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
ER  -