num_pages: 352
description: The highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh is a tense riveting story about the disparate lives that intersect at a women's clinic in Boston.For almost a decade Claudia has counseled patients at Mercy Street a clinic in the heart of the city. The work is consuming the unending dramas of women in crisis. For its patients Mercy Street offers more than health care; for many it is a second chance.But outside the clinic the reality is different. Anonymous threats are frequent. A small determined group of anti-abortion demonstrators appears each morning at its door. As the protests intensify fear creeps into Claudia's days a humming anxiety she manages with frequent visits to Timmy an affable pot dealer in the midst of his own existential crisis. At Timmy's she encounters a random assortment of customers including Anthony a lost soul who spends most of his life online chatting with the mysterious Excelsior11--the screenname of Victor Prine an anti-abortion crusader who has set his sights on Mercy Street and is ready to risk it all for his beliefs.Mercy Street is a novel for right now a story of the polarized American present. Jennifer Haigh has written a groundbreaking novel a fearless examination of one of the most divisive issues of our time.
language: English
title: Mercy Street
publisher: Ecco