Liars and Saints
a novel
Set in California, Liars and Saints follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from World War II to the present. The secrets they keep from each other —out of jealousy and propriety and love—are compounded from generation to generation. When tragedy shatters their precarious domestic lives, it takes courage and compassion to bring them back together.
“Maile Meloy combines the meticulous realism of domestic fiction with the witchery of a natural-born storyteller.”
—The New York Times Magazine
“Upends popular notions of American fiction... a spectacular first novel.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“[Meloy] may be the first great American realist of the 21st century.... The Santerres aren’t real but they feel like they are, and the reader will not soon forget them.”
—The Boston Globe
“Breathtaking.... Leaves us with characters we’ll still feel we know thirty years from now, when we pull this book down off the shelf once more.”
—Esquire
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