A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Critics\' Top Book of 2017 Washington Post 10 Best Books of 2017A Harper\'s Bazaar Best Book of 2017 "This year\'s best book about family." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post 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.
A graceful, supremely moving novel from one of our most beloved writers, Saints for All Occasions explores the fascinating, funny, and sometimes achingly sad ways a secret at the heart of one family both breaks them and binds them together..
Until, after decades of silence, a sudden death forces Nora and Theresa to confront the choices they made so long ago.
Estranged from her sister, Theresa is a cloistered nun, living in an abbey in rural Vermont.
Fifty years later, Nora is the matriarch of a big Catholic family with four grown children: John, a successful, if opportunistic, political consultant
Bridget, quietly preparing to have a baby with her girlfriend
Brian, at loose ends after a failed baseball career; and Patrick, Nora\'s favorite, the beautiful boy who gives her no end of heartache.
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.
Theresa is gregarious; she is thrilled by their new life in Boston and besotted with the fashionable dresses and dance halls on Dudley Street.
Nora is the responsible sister; she\'s shy and serious and engaged to a man she isn\'t sure that she loves.
Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America.
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Critics\' Top Book of 2017 Washington Post 10 Best Books of 2017A Harper\'s Bazaar Best Book of 2017 "This year\'s best book about family." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post 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
