And to punish herself, she will also give up the mother she adores, the one person she really loves. Rose plots to give up the baby for adoption, never telling her husband. She abandons her quiet, inoffensive husband and their life at the southern California seaside of the 1960s. Newly pregnant and unable to continue a life with a man she doesn't love, Rose decides to leave. In The Patron Saint of Liars, Rose is a young wife of three years who concludes she married by mistake, that she misinterpreted teenage lust as a sign from God. And she cannot remain forever untouched by what she has left behind.and who she has become in the leaving. Elizabeth's is near a healing spring, and when Rose's time draws near, she cannot go through with her plans, not all of them. She plans to give up her baby because she knows she cannot be the mother it needs. Not so for Rose, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed. Life there is not unpleasant, and for most, it is temporary. Elizabeth's is a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s.
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