New Mercies, Sandra Dallas
New Mercies, Sandra Dallas
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New Mercies

Author: Sandra Dallas

Narrator: Nicole Poole

Unabridged: 9 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/19/2010

Synopsis

Sandra Dallas, best-selling author of The Persian Pickle Club, weaves an intricate and sophisticated tale in New Mercies. Nora Bondurant is divorced-unfathomable for a woman in 1933-and has inherited a house from a dead aunt she never even knew existed. But when she travels to Mississippi to claim her inheritance, she finds her eccentric neighbors would rather help her acquire a new husband than reveal the secrets surrounding her aunt's death.

About Sandra Dallas

Sandra Dallas, dubbed “a quintessential American voice” in Vogue Magazine, is the author of over a dozen novels, including Prayers for Sale and Tallgrass, many translated into a dozen languages and optioned for films. Six-time winner of the Willa Award and four-time winner of the Spur Award, Dallas was a Business Week reporter for 25 years covering the Rocky Mountain region, and began writing fiction in 1990. She has two daughters and lives with her husband in Denver and Georgetown, Colorado.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carole on May 25, 2010

This book is set in Natchez, Mississippi, in the 1930's, and contains plenty of Southern culture and dialogue, i.e., (spoken by a colored ex-slave) "I guess I've been in Hell's kitchen and licked the spoon." And another: "It's just narrow-hearted littleness." Spoken by the town Sheriff: "We train our......more

Goodreads review by Linda on February 28, 2021

Wonderful book - great setting and outstanding characters. It is rare to find an author, especially one who is not a southerner, to "get it right". It is also rare is to find one who does make fun and dismiss southerners as fools. Sandra Dallas did an outstanding job capturing subtleties and describ......more

Goodreads review by SueChor on December 01, 2019

Loved this book, which has a wonderful atmospheric c.1933 Natchez Southern charm, seen through the eyes of an independent Denver character, Nora Bondurant. She arrives to sort her aunt’s estate, a relative unknown to her until she receives the telegram. Her backstory, and the guilt and sadness she c......more

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