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An instant New York Times Bestseller - Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize - A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick

"A thrilling debut that deserves your attention." --Ron Charles, Washington Post

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Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s.Mercy is hard in a place like this . . .

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En un pueblo a trescientos kil metros de cualquier lugar, los destinos de un pu ado de personajes se entrelazan en una narraci n magistral de odio y miedo, pero tambi n de amor y de esperanza.

Es el d a de San Valent n del a o 1976 y el pueblo de Odessa,... Read Full Overview

Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s.Mercy is hard in a place like this . . .

It's... Read Full Overview

Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s.Mercy is hard in a place like this . . .

It's... Read Full Overview

It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town's men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. In the early hours of the morning after Valentine's Day, 14-year-old... Read Full Overview