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The Patron Saint of Liars
Ann Patchett

The Patron Saint of Liars

Harper Perennial (Mar 01, 2003)
9780060540753
| Paperback
352 pages | 135 x 203 mm | English
Dewey 813.54
LC Classification PS3566.A7756 .P38 2003
LC Control No. 2002038733

Genre

  • Bildungsromans

Subject

  • Bildungsromans
  • Catholics
  • Catholics/ Fiction
  • Mothers And Daughters/ Fiction
  • Unmarried Mothers/ Fiction

Plot

St. Elizabeth's is a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. Life there is not unpleasant, and for most, it is temporary. Not so for Rose, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed. She plans to give up her baby because she knows she cannot be the mother it needs. But St. Elizabeth's is near a healing spring, and when Rose's time draws near, she cannot go through with her plans, not all of them. And she cannot remain forever untouched by what she has left behind ... and who she has become in the leaving.