I enjoyed reading this story about a young pregnant woman who flees her home in California for an unwed mother’s home in Kentucky. is my third book by, and I find her novels tend to hold me fast while I am reading them but sometimes leave me wondering what it was all about when it is over. 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). On this 25th anniversary, read the best-selling book that is "beautifully written. In 1992, celebrated novelist Ann Patchett launched her remarkable career with the publication of her debut novel, The Patron Saint of Liars.
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