Ratings4
Average rating3.5
Mercury is a small, dying town outside of Pittsburgh. We meet the Joseph family. Marley and her mother move to town and Marley's world melds with the Josephs.
This is quiet book about quiet lives (that secretly are not that quiet). It reminded me of early Anne Tyler- but minus the quirk.
It got rather repetitive as we see the same scenes but from a POV of a different family member.
I also think I may have been the problem as I had thought this was going to be a book about class struggle.
I can say that I'm writing this review 2 months after reading it and many of the scenes in the book are still fresh in my mind. It's sticking with me for some reason.