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In Gardenstown along the Missouri River the Carman family operates
a trucking business. The intertwined stories of Grandpa John,
grandson Johnnie, and great grandson Jeffrey link together to form
the history of depression in the Carman family men. Johnnie bears
the burden of a broken family tree and has held onto the idea of
wanting to make his family since his youth. Lore, Johnnie’s shadow
self, becomes an unstable refuge in his life. Grandpa John
withdrawals from the family after his wife’s death and Jeffrey cuts
his wrists in an attempt to flee the sacrifice of keeping his
parents together. Johnnie is asked to help Jeffrey with the same
issues he fights within himself. Grandpa John meets with the new
Priest in town. Uncles Archie and Sam buy Grandpa John out of the
trucking business. Johnnie visits his bi-polar alcoholic Mother and
turned Baptist preacher Father drowning him under the burden of
sacrifice. In response, he heads out in a rig to the Golden Gate
Bridge where he thinks mercy will be found. In Gardenstown Jeffrey
attempts a final sacrifice and Grandpa John dies with Jeffrey on
his mind. Filled with sacrifice, depression, and burden Mercy not
Sacrifice bookends it’s drama with the love of family, real life
men, and an example of how true healing can occur. Broken family
trees can bud new life as Johnnie Carman of Mercy not Sacrifice
tells the reader how he did so.
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