G467 Book Review of This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash
Name of Book: This Dark Road to Mercy Author: Wiley Cash ISBN: 978-0-06-208826-0 Publisher: William Morrow Type of book: baseball, 1990s, South Carolina, Charleston, North Carolina, Gastonia, father/daughter relationship, foster home, white poverty, minor league, revenge, murder Year it was published: 2014 Summary: The critically-acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home returns with a resonant novel of love and atonement, blood and vengeance, involving two young sisters, a wayward father, and an enemy determined to see him pay for his sins When their mother dies unexpectedly, twelve-year-old Easter and her six-year-old sister Ruby are shuffled into the foster care system in Gastonia, North Carolina, a town not far from the Appalachian mountains. But just as they settle into their new life, their errant father, Wade, an ex-minor league baseball player whom they haven't seen in years, suddenly appears and wants to spend more ...