02825cam a2200337 i 4500 623779870 TxAuBib 20180717120000.0 161202s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016048931 9780307959577 hardcover 0307959570 hardcover DLC DLC eng eng rda rda rda DLC rda NjBwBT DLC IMmBT TJT TxAuBib NjBwBT IMmBT TJT TxAuBib rda Sullivan, J. Courtney, author. Saints For All Occasions : By J. Courtney Sullivan. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. 335 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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 Catholic family with four grown children: John, a successful, if opportunistic, political consultant; Bridget, privately 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. Estranged from her sister and cut off from the world, Theresa is a cloistered nun, living in an abbey in rural Vermont. Until, after decades of silence, a sudden death forces Nora and Theresa to confront the choices they made so long ago. 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"-- Provided by publisher. "A sweeping novel about two sisters--one the matriarch of a boisterous Irish Catholic family, the other a cloistered nun, hidden from the world--and the secret that drove them apart" --Provided by publisher. 20180717. Family secrets Fiction. Women immigrants Fiction. Sisters Fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction. TXKPL