Mercury: A Novel by Amy Jo Burns early reader implicating those she loves

implicating those she loves

most important

it could destroy everything

on daughters and mothers

a novelist

Mercury: A Novel by Amy Jo Burns early reader implicating those she lovesIts 1990 and seventeen year old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual loner, she seeks a place at someones table and a family of her own. The first thing she sees when she arrives in town is three men standing on a rooftop. Their silhouettes blot out the sun. The Joseph brothers become Marleys whole world before she can blink. Soon, she is young wife to one, The One Who Got Away to another, and adopted