title: The Book of Mercy
text: # The Book of Mercy
  
  The Book of Mercy is the debut novel of the American writer Kathleen Cambor.
  
  Narrated in alternate chapters by Edmund Mueller, an 83-year-old retired Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania firefighter, and his daughter, Anne, a 42-year-old psychiatrist and single mother, the novel weaves a family saga of two Catholic German-Americans.
  
  