Saints for All Occasions

✍ Scribed by Sullivan, J Courtney

• Book ID: 109848748
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 719 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307959577

✦ Synopsis

"I hope to read another novel as strong and wise and beautiful and heartbreaking as J. Courtney Sullivan's Saints for All Occasions this year,__ but I'm not sure I will." -- Richard Russo
A sweeping, unforgettable novel from The New York Times best-selling author of Maine , about the hope, sacrifice, and love between two sisters and the secret that drives them apart.
Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. Nora is the responsible sister; she's shy and serious and engaged to a man she isn't sure that she loves. Theresa is gregarious; she is thrilled by their new life in Boston and besotted with the fashionable dresses and dance halls on Dudley Street. But when Theresa ends up pregnant, Nora is forced to come up with a plan--a decision with repercussions they are both far too young to understand. Fifty years later, Nora is the matriarch of a big...