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Liars and Saints

Written by: Maile Meloy
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
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Publisher's Summary

This richly textured novel tells a story of love and loss, sex and longing, and of the deceit that can lie at the heart of family relationships. Set in California, Liars and Saints follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from World War II to the present. In a family driven as much by jealousy and propriety as by love, an unspoken tradition of deceit is passed from generation to generation. When tragedy shatters their precarious domestic lives, it takes astonishing courage and compassion to bring them back together.

By turns funny and disturbing, irreverent and profound, Liars and Saints is a masterful display of Maile Meloy's prodigious gifts and of her penetrating insight into an extraordinary American family and into the nature of human love.

©2003 Maile Meloy (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

What the critics say

“[A] spectacular first novel.” ( New York Times Book Review)
“The alternating points of view of eight main characters shine with authenticity….The rich emotional chiaroscuro and fine psychological insight of this haunting novel mark Meloy as a writer of extraordinary talent.” ( Publishers Weekly)

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