WINNER OF THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARDNATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, the New Yorker, and the Boston GlobeMs. 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 TimesThe highly praised, extraordinary (New York Times Book Review) novel about the disparate lives that intersect at a womens clinic in Boston, by New York Times bestselling author Jennifer HaighFor 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 antiabortion demonstrators appears each morning at its door. As the protests intensify, fear creeps into Claudias days, a humming anxiety she manages with frequent visits to Timmy, an affable pot dealer in the midst of his own existential crisis. At Timmys, she encounters a random assortment of customers, including Anthony, a lost soul who spends most of his life online, chatting with the mysterious Excelsior11the screenname of Victor Prine, an antiabortion crusader who has set his sights on Mercy Street and is ready... | Jennifer Haigh Mercy Street Paperback Book