the patron saint of liars by ann patchett

THIS IS A VERY ENGAGING- *TOUCHING*, thought-provoking -debut novel ….I wasn’t expecting “The Patron Saint of Liars” to be more than average - I wasn’t expecting to be fully absorbed…. “The Patron Saint of Liars”, (debut - first published in 1992) I loved all the other characters, but Rose, on whom everything hinges, annoyed me.īel Canto, The Dutch House, Commonwealth, State of Wonder, This is A Story of a Happy Marriage, Truth and Beauty, The Magician’s Assistant, Run, Taft, These Precious Days, I didn't understand why she did things, and I don't think she did either, but the author seems entirely sympathetic to her, which frustrated me. 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.

Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California.

The patron saint of liars by ann patchett