Mercy

Plot

A novel dealing specifically with the issue of rape, which follows the journey of its everywoman protagonist from childhood to adulthood and examines the often brutal forces which shape and colour her life. The author has also written "Letters From a War Zone" and "Ice and Fire".

If Andrea Dworkin is the Malcolm X of feminism, then this novel is her version of his autobiography. . . . She is brilliant, her anger is a polished and dangerous instrument, and even some of the people she's marked as enemies can hope she finds her way. -- Madison Smartt Bell, Chicago Tribune