![]() Nice Irish girl: socially baptized.” But Howard, whom Janet has spirited away from his parents before they could send him to Yale, occasionally longs for the familiar rites of his childhood. Janet explains her relationship with Howard thus: “Nice Jewish boy: socially bar mitzvahed. But in Father Schuyler, Kirsty recognizes a kindred spirit: “I too, scrubbing away at things, dodging conversation, watching the bleach cleaner circle round the plughole as if it mattered in the least-I too am ridiculous.” Meanwhile, she must fend off frequent oversharing after mass from Janet Malkin, who with her Jewish husband Howard is raising an indeterminate number of children. ![]() Once a week, she cleans the spotless rectory for Father Schuyler, a socially awkward new pastor who has taken to locking himself up in the sacristy after mass. ![]() ![]() At first, Kirsty seems to want only to be left alone. In Works of Mercy, Sally Thomas’s slow-burning debut novel, we meet Kirsty Sain, a childless widow who moved long ago from the Shetland Islands to the fictional suburb of Annesdale, North Carolina. ![]()
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