Sweet Mercy by Ann Tatlock
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a touching, sweet, wholesome coming of age story about a 17-year-old girl who is innocent, kind and gives everyone a chance. She gets hurt by some and is pleasantly surprised by others. It takes place in the 1930s, an era when people made do with what they had and what they had was not much. It is also the time of prohibition and there is an interesting story and, I believe, a little-known fact involving Al Capone. The heroine's struggles with the way she (and all of us) sees and judges events and people, i/e. black and white, good or evil, right and wrong, the laws and the lawless. But the author shares the message that ONE thing is certain, ONE thing is never changing: God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.

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