The Mercy of Thin Air is a novel by Ronlyn Domingue that follows Raziela Nolan as she travels in the in between space for decades after her death, searching for her one true love. She dies young in an accident in New Orleans in the 1920’s, and the novel moves back and forth in time from her real life to her afterlife.

Raziela and her mother were both activists for women’s rights in the early 1900’s. Its an interesting portrait of life for women at that time, up through the present day, as well as an exploration of what it might be like to continue living as spirit, once our body is gone.

I didn’t find this book particularly remarkable, but I enjoyed it.