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Review : Book of Mercy by Sherry Roberts

December 24, 2011 by Tahlia Newland

Title: Book of Mercy Author: Sherry Roberts Publisher: www.osmyrrahpublishing.com Publication date: September 2011 Category : Fiction/Contemporary Women/ Humor/Relationships The Book of Mercy is a truly beautiful, heart-warming novel on book censorship, the nature of love, motherhood and friendship. I loved this book from the first page to the end, which had me in tears of joy - I’m a softy. When a group of influential women decide to remove “undesirable” books from the school library, Antigone Brown, a woman with dyslexia who keeps a stone in her pocket to help her remember right from left and despairs of ever being a good mother to her unborn child stands up for people’s rights to determine what they will read rather than having a bunch of self appointed guardians of local morality do it for them. Antigone ponders: how do we protect our children from the world but save the world for our children? The story strips the issue of censorship down to its bare bones of power and control … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 5 stars, Literary fiction, Reviews Tagged With: 5 stars, Book of Mercy by Sherry Roberts, Book Review, censorship, contemporary literature, fiction

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