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"In the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn stands a century-old row house presided over by renegade, silver-haired Sister Evelyn. Gruff and indomitable on the surface, warm and wry underneath, Evelyn and her fellow sisters make Mercy House a safe haven for the abused and abandoned. Women like Lucia, who arrives in the dead of night; Mei-Li, the Chinese and Russian house veteran; Desiree, a loud and proud prostitute; Esther, a Haitian immigrant...
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Mariah Green, an advocate for battered women in the Chicago area, lives with her maternal grandmother who raised her, while her mother is a fleeting presence having issues with drug addiction, and her father is an absentee. Mariah receives word from Hammond, Indiana, that she's the sole heir of her father's estate and plans to move from Chicago to Indiana to start a new life. But Mariah's grandmother declines to join her, as she knows things about...
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