5/27/2023 0 Comments Mercy by jodi picoult book summary![]() ![]() Bex gets shot by George, but gets wheeled out for medical care. She's an artist, and she has served as a mother figure for Wren after Wren's mother, Annabelle cheated on Hugh and left for Paris. She was afraid to ask her dad, so she asked her Aunt Bex to bring her instead.īex is Wren's Aunt and Hugh's sister. Wren is a teenage girl who is at the Center seeking birth control because she's seeing a boy, Ryan, she thinks she loves. ![]() He returned home embittered, and his wife eventually left him to raise their daughter on his own. ![]() George is a former military man who was dishonorably discharged from after he attacked two civilians in Bosnia (but only because they'd been trying to rape a woman). George shoots the place up because his daughter, Lil, had an abortion at the center recently. As the book progresses backwards in time, it goes through each characters and how they ended up there: After they make the switch, Wren walks towards safety, but George lifts his gun towards her and pulls the trigger.įrom there, the story continues in reverse chronological order. ![]() In an attempt to save his daughter, Hugh offers himself up in exchange for Wren. The last remaining hostage is Wren McElroy, daughter of the hostage negotiator, Hugh McElroy. The book opens at the end of the hostage standoff. A Spark of Light tells the stories of the lives of a group of people when a man, George Goddard, shoots up an abortion center (" the Center") in Mississippi. ![]()
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