Mercy
By: Lara Santoro
Publisher: Portobello
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781846271069; 9781846271076
Subjects: Women journalists; Fiction; Italian Americans; Women household employees; Female friendship; Social conditions
Description: When journalist Anna arrives in Nairobi she knows that the daily atrocities she reports on will be upsetting, but she hadn't counted on having to battle her own personal demons too. And then Mercy enters her life - ostensibly as her maid, but almost immediately becoming Anna's most adamant judge and her harshest critic, and gradually, also her counsellor and her friend.