{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeloy, Maile:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Maile Meloy is the author of the story collection \u003ci\u003eHalf in Love\u003c\/i\u003e and the novel \u003ci\u003eLiars and Saints\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize. Meloy's stories have been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and she has received \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN\/Malamud Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in California.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50412942426386,"sku":"9780743261982","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fedeb599-4c67-4faa-8ada-a91951cc605a.jpg?v=1729335086","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/liars-and-saints-9780743261982","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}