Mercy Among the Children

"[T]his throat-gripping novel...displays an almost Faulknerian excess: its heroes are Christlike idiot-saints, its villains as over the top as the Snopeses, the diction odd and gnarly..., and the plot is a medley of nefarious doings, dark revelations, and tragic coincidences....Still, I find that he conveys his moral vision so fiercely, and he addresses the question of how one should live with such urgent seriousness, that he simply sweeps away all objections."David Adams Richards is the author of 'Mercy Among the Children', published 2001 under ISBN 9781559705868 and ISBN 1559705868.