Rose knows Father O’Donnell, a local priest, and she hopes that he will help her with her troubles. Hotel Louisa has since been renamed Saint Elizabeth’s, but the people running the home are the same. Unable to face the long life she sees unfolding before her, she flees to Hotel Louisa. However, when she discovers that she’s pregnant, she is torn between telling her husband or running away. While it is just the two of them, she can cope with married life. However, it is 1968, and Rose doesn’t have the financial freedom to leave her husband. Rose may be married but she has never been happy in long-term relationships, and she is feeling trapped. This home, Hotel Louisa, is important to Rose’s journey throughout the book. The first part, “Habit,” is about how the community developed a Roman Catholic home for unwed mothers from an abandoned nunnery. Although she is the main character, we don’t meet her until the second part of the book. The book is split into four sections: “Habit,” “Rose,” “Son,” and “Sissy.” Rose Clinton lives in Habit, Kentucky.

The co-founder of Parnassus Books, Patchett was listed on the list Time 100: The Most Influential People of 2012. The novel quickly became a bestseller and was developed into a motion picture. Ann Patchett’s debut novel, The Patron Saint of Liars (1992), a work of historical literary fiction, tells the story of a young pregnant woman who leaves her husband, fleeing to a home for unwed mothers.

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