Mercury : A Novel

A clarion-hearted and capacious new novel from Amy Jo Burns, the acclaimed author of Shiner, Mercury is the story of a family of roofers striving for stability in a hardworking, blue-collar town, and the one woman who becomes their beating heart. It’s 1990 and Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A gorgeous teenager and perpetual loner, she seeks a place at someone’s table and a family of her own. The first thing she sees when she arrives in town are three men standing on a rooftop. Their silhouettes blot out the sun.The Joseph brothers become Marley’s whole world before she can blink. Soon, she is young wife to one, The One Who Got Away to another, and adopted mother to them all. As their own mother fades away and their roofing business crumbles under the weight of their unwieldy father’s inflated ego, Marley is the one who steps in to shepherd these unruly men towards the unreachable future they were promised.When an emergency roofing job turns