Liars and Saints
Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy, published by John Murray in 2004, is a literary exploration of the Catholic Santerre family across four generations, beginning from World War II to the present. This edition spans 260 pages and is presented in English, offering readers a detailed narrative that delves into the complexities of family dynamics and the impact of historical events on personal lives.
The story unfolds in California, capturing the emotional landscape of the 1950s through to the 1990s. Readers will encounter a family grappling with jealousy, propriety, and love, as well as an enduring tradition of deceit that complicates their relationships. As tragedy strikes, the narrative reveals the courage and compassion required to mend the fractures within the Santerre family, highlighting themes of resilience and the struggle to maintain connections amidst turmoil.
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Set in California, Liars and saints follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from World War II to the present, as they navigate a succession of life-altering events — through the submerged emotion of the fifties, the recklessness and excess of the sixties and seventies, and the reckonings of the eighties and nineties. In a family driven by jealousy and propriety as much as by love, an unspoken tradition of deceit is passed from generation to generation, and fiercely protected secrets gradually drive the Santerres apart. When tragedy shatters their precarious domestic lives, it takes astonishing courage and compassion to bring them back together.
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