@book{666, keywords = {Roman Catholics, German Americans, senior citizens, psychiatrists, Little Sisters of the Poor, alchemy, priests, firefighters}, author = {Kathleen Cambor}, title = {The Book of Mercy}, abstract = {Follows a German American family that consists of Edmund, a firefighter obsessed with alchemy, and his two adult children: one a priest, the other a psychiatrist. Edmund is tormented by memories of his wife, Fanny, a flamboyant dancer, who abandoned her husband and kids and Pittsburgh.}, year = {1996}, pages = {262 p.}, publisher = {Farrar, Straus & Giroux}, address = {New York}, note = {Won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Excellence in Fiction by an American Woman and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize.}, language = {English}, }