The Mercy Journals (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781551526331)

Winner, Philip K. Dick Award for Science Fiction

This unsettling novel is set thirty years in the future, in the wake of a third world war. Runaway effects of climate change have triggered the collapse of nation/states and wiped out over a third of the global population. One of the survivors, a former soldier nicknamed Mercy, suffers from PTSD and is haunted by guilt and lingering memories of his family. His pain is eased when he meets a dancer named Ruby, a performer who breathes new life into his carefully constructed existence. But when his long-lost brother Leo arrives with news that Mercy's children have been spotted, the two brothers travel into the wilderness to look for them, only to find that the line between truth and lies is trespassed, challenging Mercy's own moral code about the things that matter amid the wreckage of war and tragedy.

Set against a sparse yet fantastical landscape, The Mercy Journals explores the parameters of personal morality and forgiveness at this watershed moment in humanity's history and evolution.

Claudia Casper's previous novels include The Reconstruction (St. Martin's Press).


Author: Claudia Casper
ISBN-10: 1551526336
ISBN-13: 9781551526331
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Language: English
Published: 05/10/2016
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.70w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/21/2016
Booklist 05/01/2016 pg. 69
Shelf Awareness 05/20/2016
Foreword 05/26/2016