Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date: March 10, 2015
From barnesandnoble.com: In this
intricate novel of psychological suspense, a fatal discovery near the
high school ignites a witch-hunt in a Southeast Texas refinery town,
unearthing communal and family secrets that threaten the lives of the
town’s girls.
In Port Sabine, the air is thick
with oil, superstition reigns, and dreams hang on making a winning play.
All eyes are on Mercy Louis, the star of the championship girls’
basketball team. Mercy seems destined for greatness, but the road out of
town is riddled with obstacles. There is her grandmother, Evelia, a
strict evangelical who has visions of an imminent Rapture and sees
herself as the keeper of Mercy’s virtue. There are the cryptic letters
from Charmaine, the mother who abandoned Mercy at birth. And then
there’s Travis, the boy who shakes the foundation of her faith.
At the periphery of Mercy’s world
floats team manager Illa Stark, a lonely wallflower whose days are spent
caring for a depressed mother crippled in a refinery accident. Like the
rest of the town, Illa is spellbound by Mercy’s beauty and talent, but a
note discovered in Mercy’s gym locker reveals that her life may not be
as perfect as it appears.
The last day of school brings the
disturbing discovery, and as summer unfolds and the police investigate,
every girl becomes a suspect. When Mercy collapses on the opening night
of the season, Evelia prophesies that she is only the first to fall, and
soon, other girls are afflicted by the mysterious condition, sending
the town into a tailspin, and bringing Illa and Mercy together in an
unexpected way.
Evocative and unsettling, The Unraveling of Mercy Louis charts the downfall of one town’s golden girl while exploring the brutality and anxieties of girlhood in America.
Which book are you waiting for?
...Will you add this one to your list of must-reads?
Waiting on Wednesday: The Unraveling of Mercy Louis was originally published by
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