5/8/2023 0 Comments The mercies hargraveInspired by the real events of the Vardø storm and the 1621 witch trials, The Mercies is a story of love, evil, and obsession, set at the edge of civilization. A young woman, Maren, watches as the men of the island, out fishing, perish in an instant. The sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø is thrown into a reckless storm. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God, and flooded with a mighty evil.Īs Maren and Ursa are drawn to one another in ways that surprise them both, the island begins to close in on them, with Absalom's iron rule threatening Vardø's very existence. For readers of Circe and The Handmaid’s Tale, Kiran Millwood Hargraves The Mercies is a story about a love that could prove as dangerous as it is powerful. In Vardø, and in Maren, Ursa sees something she has never seen before: independent women. He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, who is both heady with her husband's authority and terrified by it. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. Three years later, a sinister figure arrives. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Arctic town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm.
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