To Love Mercy

by Frank S. Joseph

Overview

Frank S. Joseph’s debut novel To Love Mercy confronts race and ethnicity in segregated Chicago in the late 1940s. The book follows two boys—one black, one white—lost in the city together and exploring with innocent enthusiasm while their families tear each other apart in fear. Racial tensions spread through the novel and personal choices are made with a shattering clarity against the pressures of the city.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780974478531
Publisher:	Publishers Place, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/01/2006
Pages:	291
Sales rank:	527,254
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	15 - 18 Years

About the Author

Frank S. Joseph cut his teeth as a writer at the City News Bureau of Chicago, a noted training ground for journalists. He worked at The Associated Press, covering the Democratic National Convention street disorders, the Detroit riot, Dr. Martin Luther King's march into Cicero, Illinois, and almost every ghetto uprising and incident or urban violence that defined the turbulent mid-sixties in Chicago. Joseph was an editor with The Washington Post during the Watergate years, and in 1982, he founded Key Communications Group Inc., a specialized-information publishing company. This is his first novel. He and his wife, Carol Jason, a sculptor and artist, met in Chicago and now live in Chevy Chase, Maryland; they are the parents of Shawn and Sam.