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Abuse
Author_Jennifer Haigh
Brother
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Catholic
Church
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Faith
Family
Gospel
Priest
Scandal
Product details
- ISBN 9780007225095
- Weight: 230g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2011
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication City/Country: GB
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One woman's search for the truth after scandal rocks her family, and the explosive family secrets she uncovers, in this complex, moving novel from award-winning author Jennifer Haigh. In Faith, Jennifer Haigh explores the repercussions of one family's history of silence, when a priest's sex scandal forces his family's untold past to surface. Art, Sheila, and Mike are siblings in a large extended Irish-American family from the Boston suburbs.
Though their father is a non-believer, their mother is lace curtain Irish-Catholic, having raised her children to keep family secrets just that - secret - in a home where most subjects are taboo. Sheila is concerned when Art, beloved priest leading a major Catholic parish outside Boston, seems to fall off the grid just days before Easter. Then the news breaks that he has been accused of sexual misconduct...
Jennifer Haigh is the author of The Condition, Baker Towers, and Mrs. Kimble. Her fiction has appeared in Granta, Ploughshares, Good Housekeeping, and elsewhere. She lives in the Boston area.
