The mercies : a novel
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New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020.
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First edition.
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345 pages ; 25 cm
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARGRA 2020
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Published
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English

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After the men in an Arctic Norwegian town are wiped out, the women must survive a sinister threat in this "perfectly told" 1600s parable of "a world gone mad" (Adriana Trigiani). Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Arctic town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Three years later, a stranger arrives on their shore. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, who is both heady with her husband's authority and terrified by it. In Vardø, and in Maren, Ursa sees something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God, and flooded with a mighty evil. As Maren and Ursa are drawn to one another in ways that surprise them both, the island begins to close in on them, with Absalom's iron rule threatening Vardø's very existence. Inspired by the real events of the Vardø storm and the 1621 witch trials, The Mercies is a story of love, evil, and obsession, set at the edge of civilization.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Hargrave, K. M. (2020). The mercies: a novel (First edition.). Little, Brown and Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Hargrave, Kiran Millwood, 1990-. 2020. The Mercies: A Novel. Little, Brown and Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Hargrave, Kiran Millwood, 1990-. The Mercies: A Novel Little, Brown and Company, 2020.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Hargrave, Kiran Millwood. The Mercies: A Novel First edition., Little, Brown and Company, 2020.

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