This Dark Road to Mercy, Wiley Cash
This Dark Road to Mercy, Wiley Cash
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This Dark Road to Mercy
A Novel

Author: Wiley Cash

Narrator: Jenna Lamia, Erik Bergmann, Scott Sowers

Unabridged: 7 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: William Morrow

Published: 01/28/2014

Synopsis

The critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home—hailed as "a powerfully moving debut that reads as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird" (Richmond Times Dispatch)—returns with a resonant novel of love and atonement, blood and vengeance, set in western North Carolina, involving two young sisters, a wayward father, and an enemy determined to see him pay for his sins.After their mother's unexpected death, twelve-year-old Easter and her six-year-old sister Ruby are adjusting to life in foster care when their errant father, Wade, suddenly appears. Since Wade signed away his legal rights, the only way he can get his daughters back is to steal them away in the night.Brady Weller, the girls' court-appointed guardian, begins looking for Wade, and he quickly turns up unsettling information linking Wade to a recent armored car heist, one with a whopping $14.5 million missing. But Brady Weller isn't the only one hunting the desperate father. Robert Pruitt, a shady and mercurial man nursing a years-old vendetta, is also determined to find Wade and claim his due.Narrated by a trio of alternating voices, This Dark Road to Mercy is a story about the indelible power of family and the primal desire to outrun a past that refuses to let go.

About Wiley Cash

Wiley Cash is the New York Times bestselling author of A Land More Kind Than Home, This Dark Road to Mercy, The Last Ballad, and When Ghosts Come Home. He is a three-time winner of the SIBA Southern Book Prize, won the Conroy Legacy Award, was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and the Edgar Award for Best Novel, and won the 2025 North Carolina Award for Literature. He lives in Wilmington, NC with his wife, photographer Mallory Cash, and their two daughters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on June 02, 2021

There is a lot of used-to-be in Wiley Cash’s sophomore novel, This Dark Road to Mercy. Wade Chesterfield used to be a baseball player, used to be a husband and used to be a father. But he went oh-for three and now, as a guy who used to hang drywall and is on the run, he is mostly a crook. Bobby Prui......more

Goodreads review by Angela M on December 03, 2015

Wiley Cash has shown once again that he is a writer I will continue to follow. I have to admit that I didn't feel the grip of the writing quite as much as I did with A Land More Kind Than Home; this one was a little less edgy . But I was so taken with one of the narrators, 12 year Easter. It's impre......more

Goodreads review by Lindsay L on December 05, 2017

4.5 stars! This was an addictive, quick and suspenseful read. I flew through this book! The storyline grabbed me immediately as I fell in love with the first narrator, 12-year-old Easter Quillby. She and her sister, 9-year-old Ruby Quillby, are living together in foster care after the death of their......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on November 21, 2021

Twelve-year-old Easter Quilby and six-year-old Ruby Quilby have lived in a foster home in Gastonia, North Carolina since their mother died from a drug overdose. Their father, Wade Chesterfield - an unsuccessful former minor league baseball player - had unwillingly given up parental rights and longs......more

Goodreads review by JanB on November 18, 2017

This was another excellent Traveling Sister read with Brenda, Lindsay, and PorshaJo. The Sister's blog with reviews to this and others can be found here: [URL not allowed] The story is narrated by 3 characters: Easter, Brady, and Pruitt. Easter and her sister Ruby are left wards......more

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