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Northshore October 2025
North Shore resident and writer Alena Dillon releases her debut novel next week, on February 11. Mercy House, set in 21st century Brooklyn, follows Sister Evelyn and two other nuns who run a shelter for victims of gendered violence.  Dillon moved to the North Shore five years ago from Long Island, where she and her husband worked at St. Joseph’s College, “which was largely run by nuns,” she said. “This novel was a love letter to that experience.” Amy Schumer called the novel “a life-altering debut featuring fierce, funny, and irreverent women who battle the most powerful institution in the world. This is the book we've
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