Awards

• Winner of Mark Twain American Voice In Literature Award 2023

Overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, the New Yorker, and the Boston Globe “Ms. 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 Times The highly praised, “extraordinary” (New York Times Book Review) novel about the disparate lives that intersect at a women’s clinic in Boston, by New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh  For 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 anti-abortion demonstrators appears each morning at its door. As the protests intensify, fear creeps into Claudia’s days, a humming anxiety she manages with frequent visits to Timmy, an affable pot dealer in the midst of his own existential crisis. At Timmy’s, she encounters a random assortment of customers, including Anthony, a lost soul who spends most of his life online, chatting with the mysterious Excelsior11—the screenname of Victor Prine, an anti-abortion crusader who has set his sights on Mercy Street and is ready to risk it all for his beliefs. Mercy Street is a novel for right now, a story of the polarized American present. Jennifer Haigh, “an expert natural storyteller with a keen sense of her characters’ humanity” (New York Times), has written a groundbreaking novel, a fearless examination of one of the most divisive issues of our time.  

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Mercy Street is a savvy, keen-eyed, witty, wise, and altogether luminous novel. A triumph. Jennifer Haigh is a young master of this form. Though, at day's end, I'd read her just to read her. --Richard Ford Mercy Street is propulsive, urgent, and essential. Haigh writes with uncommon insight and compassion (and, yes, mercy) about people whose ideals are so strikingly at odds that we can only wait for their lives to collide. I was riveted and transported, and want to hand this book to everyone I know.--Rebecca Makki, Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Great Believers Mercy Street is a bold, important, beautifully written and incredibly timely novel.--Vendela Vida, author of We Run the Tides Mercy Street is a strong and heartfelt story about contemporary America in all its complexities, an important and necessary book. --Dorthe Nors, author of Mirror, Shoulder, Signal I'm just going to say it: Jennifer Haigh is the greatest novelist of our generation. And Mercy Street is her best novel yet. --Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year

Mercy Street is propulsive, urgent, and essential. Haigh writes with uncommon insight and compassion (and, yes, mercy) about people whose ideals are so strikingly at odds that we can only wait for their lives to collide. I was riveted and transported, and want to hand this book to everyone I know.--Rebecca Makkai, Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Great Believers Mercy Street is a savvy, keen-eyed, witty, wise, and altogether luminous novel. A triumph. Jennifer Haigh is a young master of this form. Though, at day's end, I'd read her just to read her. --Richard Ford Mercy Street is a bold, important, beautifully written and incredibly timely novel.--Vendela Vida, author of We Run the Tides Mercy Street is a strong and heartfelt story about contemporary America in all its complexities, an important and necessary book. --Dorthe Nors, author of Mirror, Shoulder, Signal I'm just going to say it: Jennifer Haigh is the greatest novelist of our generation. And Mercy Street is her best novel yet. --Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year

Mercy Street is a bold, important, beautifully written and incredibly timely novel.--Vendela Vida, author of We Run the Tides Mercy Street is a strong and heartfelt story about contemporary America in all its complexities, an important and necessary book. --Dorthe Nors, author of Mirror, Shoulder, Signal I'm just going to say it: Jennifer Haigh is the greatest novelist of our generation. And Mercy Street is her best novel yet. --Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year

Perceptive. . . . In Haigh's expert hands, [Mercy Street] explores how we arrive at the beliefs we hold. --Real Simple Mercy Street is propulsive, urgent, and essential. Haigh writes with uncommon insight and compassion (and, yes, mercy) about people whose ideals are so strikingly at odds that we can only wait for their lives to collide. I was riveted and transported, and want to hand this book to everyone I know.--Rebecca Makkai, Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Great Believers Mercy Street is a savvy, keen-eyed, witty, wise, and altogether luminous novel. A triumph. Jennifer Haigh is a young master of this form. Though, at day's end, I'd read her just to read her. --Richard Ford Mercy Street is a bold, important, beautifully written and incredibly timely novel.--Vendela Vida, author of We Run the Tides Mercy Street is a strong and heartfelt story about contemporary America in all its complexities, an important and necessary book. --Dorthe Nors, author of Mirror, Shoulder, Signal I'm just going to say it: Jennifer Haigh is the greatest novelist of our generation. And Mercy Street is her best novel yet. --Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year

Author Information

Jennifer Haigh is the author of the New York Times bestseller Baker Towers, winnerof the 2006 PEN/L.L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author;and Mrs. Kimble, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction and was a finalist for the Book Sense Book of the Year. Both novels were number one Book Sense picks. Her fiction has appeared in Granta, Ploughshares, Good Housekeeping, and elsewhere. She lives in the Boston area.

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