| The Book of Mercy | |
| Author: | Kathleen Cambor |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Novel |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Release Date: | 1996 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback) |
| Pages: | 261 pp |
| Isbn: | 0-374-11550-8 |
| Dewey: | 813/.54 20 |
| Congress: | PS3553.A4277 B66 1996 |
| Oclc: | 33666111 |
The Book of Mercy is the debut novel of the American writer Kathleen Cambor.[1]
Narrated in alternate chapters by Edmund Mueller, an 83-year-old retired Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania firefighter, and his daughter, Anne, a 42-year-old psychiatrist and single mother, the novel weaves a family saga of two Catholic German-Americans.[2]