Hannah Braun’s Reviews > A Mercy > Status Update

“But then Job was a man. Invisibility was intolerable to men. What complaint would a female Job dare to put forth? What shocked Job into humility and renewed fidelity was the message a female Job would have known and heard every minute of her life.”

“Mother hunger - to be one or have one - both of them were reeling from that longing which, Lina knew, remained alive, traveling the bone.”

“Pride, she thought. Pride alone made them think that they needed only themselves, could shape life that way, like Adam and Eve, like gods from nowhere beholden to nothing except their own creations… they were not family - not even a like-minded group. They were orphans, each and all.”