![]() ![]() It's like a direction you go in, even when you don't want to go any more. That's the way it is, when you love somebody your whole life. I loved her even as she was swimming away from me, even as I was hating her. "I looked at her name for a while, tried to remember what I had been thinking that night. It was sad enough to change my life for good, to make the blood reverse the course of its flow in my veins." ![]() "I'm making it sound like it was easy, when in fact it was not. Elizabeth's she cannot remain untouched by what she has left behind, even as she cannot change who she has become in the leaving. Rose's past won't be kept away, though, even by St. Elizabeth's extended family of nuns and an ever-changing collection of pregnant teenage girls. But when Cecilia is born, Rose makes a place for herself and her daughter amid St. ![]() She plans to give up her child, thinking she cannot be the mother it needs. Not so Rose Clinton, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed, and stays. Elizabeth's, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, usually harbors its residents for only a little while. a first novel that second- and third-time novelists would envy for its grace, insight, and compassion” ( Boston Herald). In 1992, celebrated novelist Ann Patchett launched her remarkable career with the publication of her debut novel, The Patron Saint of Liars. On this 25th anniversary, read the best-selling book that is “beautifully written. ![]()
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