NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post the New Yorker and
the Boston Globe Ms. Haigh is an expertly nuanced storyteller long overdue for major attention.
Her work is gripping real and totally immersive akin to that of writers as different as
Richard Price Richard Ford and Richard Russo.-Janet Maslin New York Times The highly praised
extraordinary (New York Times Book Review) novel about the disparate lives that intersect at a
women's clinic in Boston by New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh For almost a
decade Claudia has counseled patients at Mercy Street a clinic in the heart of the city. The
work is consuming the unending dramas of women in crisis. For its patients Mercy Street
offers more than health care for many it is a second chance. But outside the clinic the
reality is different. Anonymous threats are frequent. A small determined group of
anti-abortion demonstrators appears each morning at its door. As the protests intensify fear
creeps into Claudia's days a humming anxiety she manages with frequent visits to Timmy an
affable pot dealer in the midst of his own existential crisis. At Timmy's she encounters a
random assortment of customers including Anthony a lost soul who spends most of his life
online chatting with the mysterious Excelsior11-the screenname of Victor Prine an
anti-abortion crusader who has set his sights on Mercy Street and is ready to risk it all for
his beliefs. Mercy Street is a novel for right now a story of the polarized American present.
Jennifer Haigh an expert natural storyteller with a keen sense of her characters' humanity
(New York Times) has written a groundbreaking novel a fearless examination of one of the most
divisive issues of our time.
