Liars and Saints - by Maile Meloy (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The prize-winning young author of a critically acclaimed short story collection makes her full-length fiction debut in this richly textured, emotionally charged novel about four generations of an American family.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A richly textured novel tells a story of sex and longing, love and loss, and of the deceit that can lie at the heart of family relationships. "Each chapter...has the seductive aura of a finely crafted story. <i>Liars and Saints</i> is instructive and bittersweet and yet somehow never nostalgic" (<i>Los Angeles Times</i>).</b> <p/>Set in California, <i> Liars and Saints</i> 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. <p/>By turns funny and disturbing, irreverent and profound, <i>Liars and Saints </i>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. "Meloy may be the first great American realist of the twenty-first century: The Santerres aren't real but they feel like they are, and the reader will not soon forget them" (<i>The Boston Globe</i>).<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> Remarkable...Bittersweet, wise, with a fantastic sense of character and history...Fifteen minutes after opening this book, a reader is apt not just to care about the Santerres but also to feel like one of them.<br><br><i>The Boston Globe</i> A tour de force.<br><br><i>The New York Times Book Review</i> A spectacular first novel.<br><br><i>The New York Times Magazine</i> Maile Meloy combines the meticulous realism of domestic fiction with the witchery of a natural-born storyteller.<br>
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