Faith : a novel / Jennifer Haigh.
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TextPublication details: New York : Harper, 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: 318 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0060755806 (hbk.)
- 9780060755805 (hbk.)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"[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.
When her older brother Art--a Catholic priest and the popular pastor of a large suburban parish--finds himself at the center of a scandal, Sheila McGann, estranged from her family for years, returns to Boston, ready to fight for him and his reputation.