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The Mercy Seat

Rilla Askew

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#3447 of 8,085 books · #534 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1998).

The Mercy Seat was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. An epic story that takes place on the dusty, remorseless Oklahoma frontier, where two brothers are deadlocked in a furious rivalry. Fayette is an enterprising schemer hoping to cash in on his brother's talents as a gunsmith. John, determined not to repeat the crime that forced both families to flee their Kentucky homes, doggedly follows his tenacious brother west, while he watches his own family disintegrate. Wondrously told through the wary eyes of John's ten-year-old daughter, Mattie, whose gift of premonition proves to be both a blessing and a curse, The Mercy Seat resounds with the rhythms of the Old Testament even as it explores the mysteries of the Native American spirit world.

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Publisher
National Geographic Books
ISBN-13
9780140265156
Topics
Family rivalry and legacyAmerican frontier lifeGuilt and redemption

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