Faith, Jennifer Haigh
Faith, Jennifer Haigh
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Faith

Author: Jennifer Haigh

Narrator: Therese Plummer

Unabridged: 10 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/10/2011


Synopsis

""[Haigh is] an expertnatural storyteller with an acute sense of her characters' humanity."" —NewYork Times
 
""We have the intriguing possibility that the nextgreat American author is already in print."" —Fort Worth Star-Telegram
 
When Sheila McGann setsout to redeem her disgraced brother, a once-beloved Catholic priest in suburbanBoston, her quest will force her to confront cataclysmic truths about herfractured Irish-American family, her beliefs, and, ultimately, herself.Award-winning author Jennifer Haigh follows hercritically acclaimed novels Mrs. Kimbleand The Condition with a captivating,vividly rendered portrait of fraying family ties, and the trials of belief anddevotion, in Faith.

About Jennifer Haigh

Jennifer Haigh is the author of the short-story collection News from Heaven and six bestselling and critically acclaimed novels, including Mrs. Kimble, Faith and Heat and Light, which was named a Best Book of 2016 by the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and NPR. Her books have won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN New England Award in Fiction, and have been translated widely. She lives in New England.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Will

What happens when one’s foundations crumble? What if the things you believed all your life turn out to have been, well, questionable? The setting is 2002 in Boston, at the height of the terrible revelations about the Church. Sheila McGann is the younger, half-sister of Arthur Breen, a popular priest......more