![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars (1992), tells the story of a young pregnant woman who leaves the husband she does not love to travel to a home. The Patron Saint of Liars was her best-selling debut novel. She has written for the Atlantic, Gourmet, the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, the Washington Post, and others. Ann Patchett is unique: a generous, fearless, and startlingly wise young writer.”- New York Times Book ReviewĪNN PATCHETT is the author of six novels, including Bel Canto, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize. “ The Patron Saint of Liars is a remarkable novel. 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. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted measurement of quality for Movies & TV. 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. Ann Patchett has produced a first novel that second- and third-time novelists would envy for its grace, insight, and compassion.”- Boston Herald ![]()
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