The Patron Saint of Liars Individual Artists and the successes and humiliations

and the successes and humiliations of everyday college life

born of the dignity of man

This collection

” —Los Angeles Times

Compulsively readable

The Patron Saint of Liars Individual Artists and the successes and humiliationsSt. Elizabeths, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, usually harbors its residents for only a little while. Not so Rose Clinton, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed, and stays. She plans to give up her child, thinking she cannot be the mother it needs. But when Cecilia is born, Rose makes a place for herself and her daughter amid St. Elizabeths extended family of nuns and an ever changing collection of