"To Love Mercy"by Frank Joseph | To Love Mercy

This book makes you feel like you are a part of it. | To Love Mercy | Frank S. Joseph

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	• To Love Mercy Frank S. Joseph Mid-Atlantic Highlands Publishing, 2006 - 291 pages average customer review:based on 26 reviews view larger image
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I've never read a story quite like To Love Mercy, but I wish there were others like it. The unique way the book was written and laid-out really kept me reading and eager to find out what was going to happen next.
I am no author, but I know that writing from the perspective of someone else takes a lot of talent. Frank Joseph did this fluently and creatively, which provided me with complete mental images of each scene.
I strongly recommend To Love Mercy. It explores racial issues and is an all-around good novel.

"To Love Mercy"by Frank Joseph

I read Frank's book because I lived on the south side of Chicago and attended Hyde Park High School in Hyde Park in Chicago. I remember well the streets and locales that are mentioned in the book. For me, even though it was fiction it retained the flavor of non-fiction due to places, people and events that took place. When the boys took the wrong train to get home, I was silently shouting, "Get on a train going south. You're going in the wrong direction". I knew they were heading north when I read Belmont and other stops along the line, etc. I could picture riding the El and looking out the window at those neighborhoods and wondering what life was like on those streets. I went to Riverview Park as a teenager in the 50's and this was a walk down Memory Lane. I attended the Temple Frank wrote about and remember the rabbi very clearly. It was interesting and well researched. It's a taste of Chicago!and I recommend it highly.

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This book makes you feel like you are a part of it.

I really enjoyed read To Love Mercy. It captures the feeling and attitude of the times. I would highly recommend it! In fact I have!

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If Obama Hasn't Read This, He Should...

...to immerse emotionally in a Chicago where black met white and through two little boys got along, long before his time. A quick read, a rather simple plot, but human interactions that make you feel you've known the characters up close and personal. Delightful dialogue, showing that Mr. Joseph has a pitch perfect ear for conversation, whether between characters or internally. A real treat that entertains but provides deeper understanding of race relations in the north.

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A Lesson for the Heart

Frank Joseph's story, TO LOVE MERCY, is, on the surface, about two young boys and their families, one black, one white, living in a segregated Chicago of the 1940s; and a confrontation that might have ended in tragedy that instead inspires mutual curiosity, respect, and eventually trust. These feelings between the two heroes of the story lead them to follow their hearts, not allowing the adults, who refuse to resolve their differences, to turn them away from the truth--that they are more alike than they are different, that they have, by living through a particular set of experiences together, become friends. But the story offers even more for those who are open to its timeless and universal message. It provides a template of hope for what will certainly be one of the ongoing challenges for the next generation--achieving a greater understanding of those who are different than "us," whoever "we" and "they" happen to be at any given moment.

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Frank S. Joseph's debut novel TO LOVE MERCY confronts race and ethnicity in segregated Chicago in the late 1940s. The book follows two boys -- one black, one white -- lost in the city together and exploring with innocent enthusiasm while their families tear each other apart in fear. Racial tensions thread through the novel and personal choices are made with a shattering clarity against the pressures of the city.
Includes a historical Afterword on Bronzeville, "Chicago's Harlem," in the voices of a dozen people who lived there in the '30s, '40s and '50s.

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