{"product_id":"a-mercybooks","title":"A Mercy","description":"A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning  author of \u003cb\u003eBeloved\u003c\/b\u003e and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader in 1680s United States, when the slave trade is still  in its infancy. Reluctantly he takes a small slave girl in part payment from a plantation  owner for a bad debt. Feeling rejected by her slave mother, 14-year-old Florens can  read and write and might be useful on his farm. Florens looks for love, first from  Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, but later from the handsome  blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At the novel's heart, like \u003cb\u003eBeloved\u003c\/b\u003e, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother  and a daughter – a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a  daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.","brand":"Morrison, Toni","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\/Adult Fiction","offer_id":43815422591200,"sku":"","price":12.75,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/products\/BNCImageAPI_89a11d8c-db7e-4d40-9fbb-63cf7795b690.jpg?v=1674501420","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/a-mercybooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}