Faith: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0062079360
- ISBN-13
- 9780062079367
- Series
- Faith
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-05-10
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Author
- Jennifer Haigh
Description
"[Haigh is] an expertnatural storyteller with an acute sense of her characters' humanity." —NewYork Times "We have the intriguing possibility that the nextgreat American author is already in print." —Fort Worth Star-Telegram When Sheila McGann setsout to redeem her disgraced brother, a once-beloved Catholic priest in suburbanBoston, her quest will force her to confront cataclysmic truths about herfractured Irish-American family, her beliefs, and, ultimately, herself.Award-winning author Jennifer Haigh follows hercritically acclaimed novels Mrs. Kimbleand The Condition with a captivating,vividly rendered portrait of fraying family ties, and the trials of belief anddevotion, in Faith.
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