Mercury
15 hrs. 55 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Amy Jo Burns
Author
Amy Jo Burns
Narrator
Ekaterina Finevich
Narrator
Ekaterina Finevich
Description
“Mercury” reveals emotional currents inside a large family with astonishing subtlety—where each person has their own wound, their own drama, their own hopes, and losses. This is a story nearly twenty years long, carefully preserving the fate of the Josephs—like something frozen in amber: alive, beautiful, and true.
Seventeen-year-old Marli has searched all her life for a sense of home, but constant moves with her mother never gave her a chance to take root. When they end up in a small town of Mercury and start everything over again, Marli meets the Josephs—a proud family at the origins of the roofing company “Joseph & Sons.”
Over time, Marli marries one of the sons and for the first time feels what it means to belong to a large circle of close people, sitting at one shared table. But a woman’s life among complicated men turns out to be like motherhood for already-grown sons. Soon, Marli will have to take on the role of the family’s support, which until recently was unfamiliar to her: caring for a newborn child and her husband, for the father-in-law and her brothers-in-law, and keeping the family business afloat. And only life itself can teach this—strict, merciless, and far from always joyful.
Seventeen-year-old Marli has searched all her life for a sense of home, but constant moves with her mother never gave her a chance to take root. When they end up in a small town of Mercury and start everything over again, Marli meets the Josephs—a proud family at the origins of the roofing company “Joseph & Sons.”
Over time, Marli marries one of the sons and for the first time feels what it means to belong to a large circle of close people, sitting at one shared table. But a woman’s life among complicated men turns out to be like motherhood for already-grown sons. Soon, Marli will have to take on the role of the family’s support, which until recently was unfamiliar to her: caring for a newborn child and her husband, for the father-in-law and her brothers-in-law, and keeping the family business afloat. And only life itself can teach this—strict, merciless, and far from always joyful.
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