Strange Mercies

Meet Mayhew, protagonist of Pete Duval's "Strange Mercies." Once upon a time in a faraway, Spanish-speaking land, Mayhew has a job to do: document via videotape a young woman whose Christ-like wounds bleed on cue and without scientific explanation, whose street-preacher performances might be exposed as trickery or recorded as real, a mystery we can't explain away, "Strange Mercies" evokes a world of staggering heat and blinding midday light, a world of stray dogs and curlews, "their song beautiful beyond description." From this world something miraculous is made: a modern parable that feels channeled from the ghosts of Fyodor Dostoevsky and John of Patmos.

Praise for Pete Duval
"Duval is an inventive stylist." Publishers Weekly
"A fresh voice and approach..." Booklist, ALA
"Intriguing . . . Duval is the master of convincing details." Boston Globe

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