A Tangled Mercy tells the dual tales of present day Kate, who is having somewhat of a breakdown after the death of her mother, and Tom Russell, a slave in Charleston in 1822 who gets swept up in a revolt. Joy Jordan-Lake expertly weaves these disparate timelines together, which are each compelling in their own right. Kate returns to Charleston from her PhD work in the Northeast to pick at the threads of her mother’s mysterious life, pushing to find the answers that have eluded her for so long. Tom wants to keep his head down and manage as best as he can, given the circumstances, but has to watch as his love is raped by her owner and live with the uncertainty that their expecting child may or may not be his. It’s hard to reveal much more without giving away some of the interesting interconnections and plot twists, but the title “tangled” really does explain it well.
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