Born in Sweetwater, West Virginia, with a mop of flaming red hair
and a map of the world rendered in port-wine stains on every
surface of her body, Garnet Ferrari is used to being an outcast.
With her sharp tongue, she has always known how to defend herself
against bullies and aggressors, but she finds she is less adept at
fending off the pilgrims who have set up a veritable tent city
outside her hilltop home, convinced that she is Saint Garnet,
healer of skin ailments and maker of miracles.
Her grandmother, the indelible Nonna Diamante, believes that
Garnet's mystical gift can be traced back to the family's origins
in the Nebrodi Mountains of Sicily, and now the Vatican has sent an
emissary to Sweetwater to investigate. Garnet, wanting nothing more
than to debunk this "gift" and send these desperate souls packing,
reaches back into her family's tangled past and unspools for the
Church a tale of love triangles on the shores of the Messina
Strait; a sad, beautiful maiden's gilded-cage childhood in
blueblood Virginia; and the angelic, doomed boy Garnet could not
protect.
Saint or not, Garnet learns that the line between reality and
myth is always blurred, and that the aspects of ourselves we are
most ashamed of can prove to be the source of our greatest
strength, and even our salvation.
General
| Imprint: |
Mariner Books,US
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
June 2014 |
| First published: |
June 2014 |
| Authors: |
Marie Manilla
|
| Dimensions: |
210 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Cloth over boards
|
| Pages: |
352 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-544-14624-2 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
| LSN: |
0-544-14624-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780544146242 |
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