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When her brother Art, a Catholic priest of a large suburban parish, finds himself at the center of a scandal, Sheila McGann, who has been estranged from her family for years, returns to Boston, ready to fight for him and his reputation.
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"[Haigh is] an expertnatural storyteller with an acute sense of her characters' humanity." —NewYork Times "We have the intriguing possibility that the next great 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 suburban Boston, 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. Kimble and The Condition with a captivating, vividly rendered portrait of fraying family ties, and the trials of belief anddevotion, in Faith.
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