TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hargrave,Kiran Millwood
TI  - The mercies: a novel 
SN  - 9780316529259
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Little, Brown and Company
KW  - Trials (Witchcraft)
KW  - Norway
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Witch hunting
KW  - Life change events
KW  - Widows
KW  - Lesbians
KW  - Finnmark fylke (Norway)
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - After a storm has killed off all the island's men, two women in a 1600s Norwegian coastal village struggle to survive against both natural forces and the men who have been sent to rid the community of alleged witchcraft; Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Forty fishermen, including Maren Magnusdatter's brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. The women of the tiny Arctic town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Three years later Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. His young Norwegian wife, Ursa, sees something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God, and flooded with a mighty evil. Maren and Ursa are drawn to one another in ways that surprise them both, but Absalom's iron rule threatening Vardø's very existence. -- adapted from jacket
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