false 15957 9 <p> St. Elizabeth's is a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. Life there is not unpleasant, and for most, it is temporary. Not so for Rose, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed. She plans to give up her baby because she knows she cannot be the mother it needs. But St. Elizabeth's is near a healing spring, and when Rose's time draws near, she cannot go through with her plans, not all of them. And she cannot remain forever untouched by what she has left behind ... and who she has become in the leaving. </p> 1043652 1992 The Patron Saint of Liars total:3909|5:20|4:41|3:40|2:13|1:2| 3909 14232 5186 559 4 5 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 11 19:09:02 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 01 08:19:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 5 false false Fri May 25 13:06:56 -0700 2007 Sun May 27 07:26:15 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Mar 31 17:16:57 -0700 2007 Sat Mar 31 17:18:13 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false true Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 16:16:43 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 13:04:27 -0700 2008
The beginning of the story is told in her voice. She is...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 12:57:40 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 12:57:40 -0800 2008
It's the story of Rose, a woman who leaves her husband in California to have her baby in a home ...more...]]> 3 3 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jan 18 12:47:42 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 18 12:56:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 14:04:29 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 14:15:53 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 15:49:43 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 23:08:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 08 11:47:13 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 19:16:00 -0700 2009
Martha Rose gets married. She realizes that she does not love her husband, and begins to feel trapped. She finds out she is pregnant. She leave...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 22:11:56 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 15:31:50 -0800 2008
I was totally sucked in by the stories opening but then the tone changed and the character depth faded a bit. The turmoil the main character feels is never discusse...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Feb 16 17:14:19 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 17:15:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jan 16 00:33:33 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 00:34:11 -0800 2009
This was Patchett’s debut novel. She talked about writing it in her book: “truth and Beauty.” The central character was Rose. She left her adoring h...more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Dec 17 11:36:12 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 11:37:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 14:22:42 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 14:31:41 -0700 2009
In the late 60s, Rose, three months pregnant, suddenly d...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 06 04:04:22 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 14 14:19:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 16:23:40 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 06:19:00 -0800 2009
The novel is about a married woman who goes to a home for unwed mothers, bu...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 20:30:18 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 14:58:23 -0800 2008
The main character in this novel set in the late 1950s/e...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 16:01:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 19:22:37 -0700 2009 T...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 14:04:48 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 12:48:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 17 06:27:47 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 04:15:55 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 06:27:47 -0700 2009
Except for a brief opening chapter about the novel's setting, the whole book is told ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=15957