Small Mercies

by Margot Sullivan

Linked stories set in a Connecticut river town over the course of one summer. A high school teacher is having an affair with a colleague. There's a teenager running a bait shop who finds a wallet with eight thousand dollars in it, and a retired judge who's losing her memory and hiding it from her family. They cross paths in small ways — a borrowed boat, a favor that goes wrong. I wrote this between novels when I needed to remember what it felt like to finish something.

Small Mercies

Praise

  • “Linked stories that read like a novel of a whole town. Tender and exact.”

    The Hudson Review of Books

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Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Pages

256

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