Book guide
A Mercy
A mother’s desperate mercy becomes a daughter’s lifelong wound.
GenresHistoricalLiterary
Genre and trope pairingsHistoricalClass divideLiteraryGrief journeyLiteraryFragmented narrativeLiterarySocial commentary
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About A Mercy
In late-seventeenth-century America, trader Jacob Vaark takes the literate girl Florens as payment for a debt; rejected by her mother, Florens searches for love in a brutal world before racial categories have fully hardened.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- slavery
- racism
- child death
- child abuse
- colonisation
- misogyny
- rape
- violence
- trafficking
