The Mercy of Thin Air: A Novel - Historical Fiction Book About Love and Loss - Perfect for Book Clubs & Literary Enthusiasts
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New Orleans, 1920s. Raziela Nolan is in the throes of a magnificent love affair when she dies in a tragic accident. In an instant, she leaves behind her one true love and her dream of becoming a doctor -- but somehow, she still remains. Immediately after her death, Razi chooses to stay between -- a realm that exists after life and before whatever lies beyond it. From this remarkable vantage point, Razi narrates the stories of her lost love, Andrew, and the relationship of Amy and Scott, a couple whose house she haunts almost seventy-five years later. The Mercy of Thin Air entwines these two fateful and redemptive love stories that echo across three generations. From ambitious, forward-thinking Razi, who illegally slips birth control guides into library books; to hip Web designer Amy, who begins to fall off the edge of grief; to Eugenia, caught between since the Civil War, the characters in this wondrous novel sing with life. Evoking the power of love, memory, and time, The Mercy of Thin Air culminates in a startling finish that will leave readers breathless.
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Once in a while, a book will choose me to read it. I happened to pick this up on a bargain table for 4 dollars and figured that even if I didn't like it, it was still only 4 dollars.Best damn 4 dollars I ever spent.Ronlyn Domingue's debut novel is magical and hypnotic. There is just no other way to describe it. Raziela Nolan is a unique and powerful protagonist, her voice becoming warm and familiar after the second page. The characters become your friends, relatives, brothers, and sisters. You laugh with them, cry with them, bleed with them, and worry about them as if they were right beside you. Domingue's mind-blowing descriptions and poetic prose put you within the action, feeling and seeing with the characters. The parallels within the story, along with the shift between the past and the present, keep the reader engaged and curious, hopelessly attached to the book until the punctuation of the last sentence. The ending will leave you breathless, grasping your chest in awe and sorrow, grateful for having had the experience but longing for more.Just as Razi will never forget Andrew, or a single solitary moment of her breathing life, I will never forget a single page of this beautiful, expertly crafted work of literature. Read it, I promise it will change your life.
