Mercies
Mercies The women in an Arctic village must survive a sinister threat after all the men are wiped out by a catastrophic storm in this "gripping novel inspired by a real-life witch hunt. . . .…
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Mercies
The women in an Arctic village must survive a sinister threat after all the men are wiped out by a catastrophic storm in this "gripping novel inspired by a real-life witch hunt. . . . Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the skies break into a sudden and reckless storm. Beautiful and chilling" (Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe).When the women take over, is it sorcery or power?Finnmark, Norway, 1617.
They fish, hunt, and butcher reindeer--which they never did while the men were alive. All forty of the village's men were at sea, including Maren's father and brother, and all forty are drowned in the otherworldly disaster.For the women left behind, survival means defying the strict rules of the island. But the foundation of this new feminine frontier begins to crack with the arrival of Absalom Cornet, a man