Any Bitter Thing: A Novel
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Books › Fiction › Psychological
ISBN: 0345477685 / Publisher: Ballantine Books, April 2006
Raised by her uncle, a Catholic priest, until he is falsely accused of molesting her and dismissed from his church, and she is sent awy to boarding school, Lizzy Mitchell is now thirty years old and struggling to deal with a failing marriage, until a near fatal car accident forces her to reexamine her life and the truths surrounding the accusations against her uncle. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
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After surviving a near-fatal accident, thirty-year-old Lizzy Mitchell faces a long road to recovery. She remembers little about the days she spent in and out of consciousness, save for one thing: She saw her beloved deceased uncle, Father Mike, the man who raised her in the rectory of his Maine church until she was nine, at which time she was abruptly sent away to boarding school. Was Father Mike an angel, a messenger from the beyond, or something more corporeal? Though her troubled marriage and her broken body need tending, Lizzy knows she must uncover the details of her accident–and delve deep into events of twenty years before, when whispers and accusations forced a good man to give up the only family he had. With deft insight into the snares of the human heart, Monica Wood has written an intimate and emotionally expansive novel full of understanding and hope.
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