An instant New York Times BestsellerA Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!"A thrilling debut that deserves your attention." Ron Charles, the Washington PostWritten with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s.Mercy is hard in a place like this . . . Its February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great ...