Small Mercies A Novel

Eddie Joyce, Scott Aiello

eAudio - 2015

“Eddie Joyce’s terrific first novel is so American that the story might as well have taken place at the base of the Statue of Liberty. His Amendola family and their beloved Staten Island may be flawed, but they represent what’s best and most necessary in the American character, what our tired and poor still yearn for.” —Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls A startling and tender portrait of one family’s struggle to make peace with their son’s deathAn ingeniously layered narrative, told over the course of one week, Eddie Joyce’s debut novel masterfully depicts an Italian-Irish American family on Staten Island and their complicated emotional history. Ten years after the loss of Bobby—the Amendola fa...mily’s youngest son—everyone is still struggling to recover from the firefighter’s unexpected death. Bobby’s mother Gail; his widow Tina;... more