![]() ![]() The next narrative belongs to Son, a huge man originally from Tennessee-like Rose, gone forever from home-who recounts the last moments of his fiancÇe's life long ago (Sister Evangeline absolves him of responsibility) and who loves Rose. But in the home, once a grand hotel, Rose keeps her baby, Cecilia marries ``Son,'' the handyman (``God was right after all.I was supposed to live a small life with a man I didn't love'') and becomes the cook after briefly assisting that terrible cook, sage/seeress, and font of love, Sister Evangeline. ![]() Elizabeth's home for unwed mothers, where she plans to have the baby Tom will never know about, and to give it clean away. From San Diego, then, Rose drives-``nothing behind me and nothing ahead of me''-all the way to Kentucky and St. ![]() ``Maybe I was born to lie,'' thinks Rose, who, after a three- year marriage to nice Tom Clinton, realizes that she's misread the sign from God pointing to the wedding: she married a man she didn't love. ![]() Within the security of everydayness, minds and hearts take grievous risks. Patchett's first novel, set in rural Kentucky in a castle-like home for unwed mothers-where a good woman finds she cannot lie her way beyond love-has a quiet summer-morning sensibility that reminds one of the early work of Anne Tyler. ![]()
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