Catholic lore, American tales, and Sicilian superstition blend in this "clever, funny, heartbreaking, and heartwarming" novel (
Publishers Weekly).
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Born with unruly red hair, a sharp tongue, and wine-colored marks all over her bodyāmarks that oddly mimick a map of the world and make her subject to endless ridiculeāGarnet Ferrari would hardly consider herself blessed. So when an emissary from the Vatican shows up at her door, convinced that her seeming ability to cure the skin ailments of others qualifies her for sainthood, she's not quite convincedāor pleased.
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Garnet sets off on a quest to better understand who she is and where she and her unusual gifts came from. Tracing a twisted path that leads from Sicily to West Virginia, poverty to riches, romance to loss, reality to mythology, Garnet uncovers a truth far more powerful than any dermatological miracle: that the things of which we are most ashamed often become our greatest strengths.
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"A cleareyed, touching fable of a girl learning the hard truths about herself and others." ā
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The Patron Saint of Ugly
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Literature GeneralTable of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- The Legend of Saint Garnet del Vulcano
- Mating Habits of the Ferrarus Disgusticus
- Nonnaās Mojo Risinā
- My Cursed, Cursed Birth
- The (Abridged) Life of a Saint
- Corpus Christi
- Electricity
- Doll versus Doll
- La Strega
- The Saint Brigidās Day Massacre
- Mirror, Mirror
- Sibling Rivalries
- Portafortuna
- SS Edmund Fitzgerald
- The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Acts of Contrition
- Mommy through the Looking Glass
- Get Thee to a Nunnery
- Three on a Match
- Thoroughly Modern Miracle
- La Vigilia
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH
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