{"product_id":"liars-and-saints-9780743261982","title":"Liars and Saints","description":"\u003cb\u003eA richly textured novel tells a story of sex and longing, love and loss, and of the deceit that can lie at the heart of family relationships. \"Each chapter...has the seductive aura of a finely crafted story. \u003ci\u003eLiars and Saints\u003c\/i\u003e is instructive and bittersweet and yet somehow never nostalgic\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in California, \u003ci\u003e Liars and Saints\u003c\/i\u003e follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from World War II to the present. In a family driven as much by jealousy and propriety as by love, an unspoken tradition of deceit is passed from generation to generation. When tragedy shatters their precarious domestic lives, it takes astonishing courage and compassion to bring them back together. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy turns funny and disturbing, irreverent and profound, \u003ci\u003eLiars and Saints \u003c\/i\u003eis a masterful display of Maile Meloy's prodigious gifts and of her penetrating insight into an extraordinary American family and into the nature of human love. \"Meloy may be the first great American realist of the twenty-first century: The Santerres aren't real but they feel like they are, and the reader will not soon forget them\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/13\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780743261982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.12h x 5.28w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2004 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2004 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/20\/2009 pg. 65\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Maile Meloy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42038603415733,"sku":"9780743261982","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_56346eb8-6047-46ee-a949-1ae92ba57cf1.jpg?v=1649737470","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/liars-and-saints-9780743261982","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}