Hannah Thurman’s Mercy Hill, is an emotionally nuanced coming-of-age story set within the confines of an aging mental institution in Raleigh, North Carolina, told from the point of view of the youn…
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A Dairy Queen, a Subway, three dollar stores, a strip of half-empty storefronts along Main Street: you could hardly call it a community, where I grew up in rural Kentucky. Or rather, it didn’t feel…
