One of Literary Hub’s Favorite Books of the Year Evoking the power of love, memory, and time, The Mercy of Thin Air culminates in a startling finish that will leave readers breathless. 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. The Mercy of Thin Air entwines these two fateful and redemptive love stories that echo across three generations.
Immediately after her death, Razi chooses to stay between - a realm that exists after life and before whatever lies beyond it.įrom 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. In an instant, she leaves behind her one true love and her dream of becoming a doctor - but somehow, she still remains.
Raziela Nolan is in the throes of a magnificent love affair when she dies in a tragic accident. “ has a captivating energy, a precision and a fondness for people that are rare…King loves people as well as words.” -The New York Times “King writes with witty verve.” - Entertainment Weekly Set against the backdrop of a nation on the verge of collapse, Dora’s search for the truth behind the mystery she’s long concealed will unravel a monstrous conspiracy and bring her to the edge of worlds. However, neither this museum, nor the street it is hidden away on, nor Dora herself, are what they at first appear to be. Robert offers her one of these, The National Museum of the Worker. With the city amidst a revolutionary upheaval, where citizens like Robert Barnes, her lover and a student radical, are now in positions of authority, Dora contrives to gain the curatorship of the half-forgotten museum only to find it all but burnt to the ground, with the neighboring museums oddly untouched. It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed “the Fairest”, it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half its theaters and many museums the Morgue Ship and, like all cities, but maybe especially so, by its essential unmappability.ĭora, a former domestic servant at the university has a secret desire-to find where her brother went after he died, believing that the answer lies within The Museum of Psykical Research, where he worked when Dora was a child. From New York Times bestselling author Owen King comes a Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figures, thieves are noble, scholars are revolutionaries, and conjurers are the most wonderful criminals you can imagine.
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