Reseña del libro "The Merciful (en Inglés)"
A lonesome highway. A hit and run. A coastal town in turmoil. Jon Sealy's The Merciful is a gripping courtroom drama that explores a cast of small-town characters surrounding a deadly incident in coastal South Carolina. The low-country town of Overlook is a sleepy tourist and retirement community known for its golf courses and laid-back lifestyle. But when 19-year-old Samantha James is killed in a hit and run one night while riding her bicycle home from work, the town sets out to crucify the alleged culprit, Daniel Hayward. The headlines tell a compelling story, but everyone involved has a "story" about what happened: the media, the prosecutor, the defense attorney, Daniel, and Samantha's family. As the book examines these myriad perspectives, The Merciful's stunning scope ranges from characters striving for a kind of American success that's just out of reach, to questions of data analytics, brain emulations, and the very survival of humanity. Ultimately, however, the novel is a morality play that asks tough questions about the nature of justice-and mercy. What do you do when one moment, one accident, one decision changes the course of life forever? Jon Sealy, the critically acclaimed author of The Whiskey Baron, delivers a probing look at questions of justice and mercy in our era of competing narratives and online outrage.
