Excerpt from Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

No way, man. I'm gonna play ball.


I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU CAN WORK HERE.

It was not, in Claudia's view, an extraordinary way to make a living. On the phone and in person, she took care of patients—as many women did, as her own mother had done. The patients—pregnant or not, in crisis or not—needed information. They needed pregnancy tests, birth control pills, STD panels. They needed Depo shots, IUDs, antibiotics, pelvic exams.

She took care of patients. The rest—the angry protestors, the threats and insults—didn't touch her. Each morning she rode the train to work. On Mercy Street she pushed her way through the crowd.

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