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A lonesome highway. A hit and run. A coastal town in turmoil. Jon Sealy's The Merciful is a gripping courtroom drama that explores a cast of smalltown characters surrounding a deadly incident in coastal South Carolina.The lowcountry town of Overlook is a sleepy tourist and retirement community known for its golf courses and laidback lifestyle. But when 19yearold Samantha James is killed in a hit and run one night while riding her bicycle home from work, the town sets out to crucify the alleged culprit, Daniel Hayward. The headlines tell a compelling story, but everyone involved has a "story" about what happened: the media, the prosecutor, the defense attorney, Daniel, and Samantha's family.As the book examines these myriad perspectives, The Merciful's stunning scope ranges from characters striving for a kind of American success that's just out of reach, to questions of data analytics, brain emulations, and the very survival of humanity. Ultimately, however, the novel is a morality play that asks tough questions about the nature of justiceand mercy. What do you do when one moment, one accident, one decision changes the course of life forever?Jon Sealy, the critically acclaimed author of The Whiskey Baron, delivers a probing look at questions of justice and mercy in our era of competing narratives and online outrage.
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