Mercury

A Novel

De: Amy Jo Burns

Narrado por: Maria Liatis

A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart of their blue-collar town—from Amy Jo Burns, author of the critically acclaimed novel Shiner

It’s 1990 and seventeen-year-old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual loner, she seeks a place at someone’s table and a family of her own. The first thing she sees when she arrives in town is three men standing on a rooftop. Their silhouettes blot out the sun.

The Joseph brothers become Marley’s whole world before she can blink. Soon, she is young wife to one, The One Who Got Away to another, and adopted mother to them all. As their own mother fades away and their roofing business crumbles under the weight of their unwieldy father’s inflated ego, Marley steps in to shepherd these unruly men. Years later, an eerie discovery in the church attic causes old wounds to resurface and suddenly the family’s survival hangs in the balance. With Marley as their light, the Joseph brothers must decide whether they can save the family they’ve always known—or whether together they can build something stronger in its place.

A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books.

©2024 Amy Jo Burns (P)2024 Macmillan Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Mercury shimmers with authenticity. Amy Jo Burns is a big-time talent whose beautiful and honest prose elevates love, even when plumbing the darker realities of family. Equal parts gripping page-turner and wise character study. Tears streamed down my face as I turned the last page. An instant favorite.”—Matthew Quick, New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook and We Are the Light

"Mercury is that rare and marvelous novel that offers us the combination of unforgettable characters, tender prose, page-turning narrative, and the escape of an immersive world. Burns has gifted us with a family saga replete with the subtle moments that make us human, that take our breath away, and that gut us with feeling. Among many, Burns asks the important question—how does one become oneself while also living in a family that consumes? When we meet the Joseph family, we, just as Marley, want to sit at the dinner table with the matriarch and four complicated men without yet understanding the consequences of joining them. With textured and lush prose, Burns exposes the private desires and secrets living below the roofline of their collective lives. When a leak appears in the town’s church bell tower, what has been hidden is exposed in a breath-holding unfolding. I am in love with Marley and the Joseph family, and I miss them already."—Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times best-selling author The Secret Life of Flora Lea

"It just doesn’t get any better than this when it comes to a story about what it means to be family, whether it’s the one you’re born into or the one you create. From the moment I started Amy Jo Burns’s new book I couldn’t put it down—even though I didn’t want it to end. You will fall in love with these beautifully drawn, unforgettable characters, who remind us of the strength of family bonds, and the importance of grace and forgiveness."—Tracey Lange, the New York Times bestselling author of We Are the Brennans

The depth of the love for one another

That Waylon didn’t go after her. He was just too pouty. And should have loved her more.

Vivid description of frail humanity

Amy Jo Burns is a wordsmith who paints a beautiful, haunting picture of a whole town and frail human hearts

Enjoyable

This story was different but addicting . A unlikely family bond with answers revealed the entire book.

Marley

The nicknames of the brothers Joseph. “Bay”, “Way”, “Say” confused me at times. Left me wondering “wait, who’s she taking about now?

decent story, narrator needed more research

narrator pronounces some words wrong, kind of unprofessional, seems like you'd research musicians names, but nice voice and decent story