Saints for all occasions : a novel /
Sullivan, J. Courtney,
Saints for all occasions : a novel / J. Courtney Sullivan. - First Edition. - 335 pages ; 25 cm
"Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. Nora is the responsible sister; she's shy and serious and engaged to a man she isn't sure that she loves. Theresa is gregarious; she is thrilled by their new life in Boston and besotted with the fashionable dresses and dance halls on Dudley Street. But when Theresa ends up pregnant, Nora is forced to come up with a plan--a decision with repercussions they are both far too young to understand. Fifty years later, Nora is the matriarch of a big Catholic family with four grown children: John, a successful, if opportunistic, political consultant; Bridget, privately preparing to have a baby with her girlfriend; Brian, at loose ends after a failed baseball career; and Patrick, Nora's favorite, the beautiful boy who gives her no end of heartache. Estranged from her sister and cut off from the world, Theresa is a cloistered nun, living in an abbey in rural Vermont. Until, after decades of silence, a sudden death forces Nora and Theresa to confront the choices they made so long ago."-- Nora and Theresa Flynn left their small village in Ireland to journey to Boston. Nora is responsible, shy and serious, and engaged to a man she isn't sure that she loves. Theresa is gregarious, besotted with the fashionable dresses and dance halls on Dudley Street. When Theresa ends up pregnant, Nora makes a decision with repercussions they are both far too young to understand. Fifty years later, Nora is the matriarch of a big Catholic family with four grown children. Estranged from her sister and cut off from the world, Theresa is a cloistered nun, living in an abbey in rural Vermont. A sudden death forces Nora and Theresa to confront the choices they made so long ago.
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2016048931
Sisters--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Nuns--Fiction.
Irish fiction--Massachusetts--Boston.
Life change events--Fiction.
Boston (Mass.)--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Saints for all occasions : a novel / J. Courtney Sullivan. - First Edition. - 335 pages ; 25 cm
"Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. Nora is the responsible sister; she's shy and serious and engaged to a man she isn't sure that she loves. Theresa is gregarious; she is thrilled by their new life in Boston and besotted with the fashionable dresses and dance halls on Dudley Street. But when Theresa ends up pregnant, Nora is forced to come up with a plan--a decision with repercussions they are both far too young to understand. Fifty years later, Nora is the matriarch of a big Catholic family with four grown children: John, a successful, if opportunistic, political consultant; Bridget, privately preparing to have a baby with her girlfriend; Brian, at loose ends after a failed baseball career; and Patrick, Nora's favorite, the beautiful boy who gives her no end of heartache. Estranged from her sister and cut off from the world, Theresa is a cloistered nun, living in an abbey in rural Vermont. Until, after decades of silence, a sudden death forces Nora and Theresa to confront the choices they made so long ago."-- Nora and Theresa Flynn left their small village in Ireland to journey to Boston. Nora is responsible, shy and serious, and engaged to a man she isn't sure that she loves. Theresa is gregarious, besotted with the fashionable dresses and dance halls on Dudley Street. When Theresa ends up pregnant, Nora makes a decision with repercussions they are both far too young to understand. Fifty years later, Nora is the matriarch of a big Catholic family with four grown children. Estranged from her sister and cut off from the world, Theresa is a cloistered nun, living in an abbey in rural Vermont. A sudden death forces Nora and Theresa to confront the choices they made so long ago.
9780307959577 0307959570 9780307949806 030794980X
2016048931
Sisters--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Nuns--Fiction.
Irish fiction--Massachusetts--Boston.
Life change events--Fiction.
Boston (Mass.)--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.