The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett

She seems to act with no motivation or thought. I think, however, that I would have enjoyed the book a lot more if it was not for the main character whom I just didn't like. It held my interest and there were a few really lovely moments where a theme would repeat itself through time and generations, recalling other beautiful moments. I loved the story of the place and I thought the writing was quite good. It is also the story of the people who stay there-Rose, with all her secrets, her daughter, the nuns and the groundskeeper. The story is about the place almost as much as the people-a place where people come for a brief, but life-altering, time and then move on. The story of Rose, a habitual abandoner, who finds herself in a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. In 2012, Patchett was on the Time 100 list of most influential people in the world by TIME magazine. In 2010, when she found that her hometown of Nashville no longer had a good book store, she co-founded Parnassus Books with Karen Hayes the store opened in November 2011. It was also there that she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars. She later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she met longtime friend Elizabeth McCracken. Following graduation, she attended Sarah Lawrence College and took fiction writing classes with Allan Gurganus, Russell Banks, and Grace Paley. Bernard Academy, a private, non-parochial Catholic school for girls run by the Sisters of Mercy. the stable window that opens out into the imagination.' If asked if she could go any place, that place would always be home. Patchett said she loves her home in Nashville with her doctor husband and dog.

She moved to Nashville, Tennessee when she was six, where she continues to live.

The Patron Saint of Liars is the best-selling debut novel that launched Ann Patchett's remarkable career, and its genesis is the subject of her now-famous treatise on writing, 'The Getaway Car,' included in her 2013 essay collection This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage.Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California. 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.

The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett