
The Patron Saint of Ugly
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Narrated by:
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Laura Hicks
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Marie Manilla
Born in Sweetwater, West Virginia, with a mop of flaming red hair and a map of the world rendered in port-wine stains on every surface of her body, Garnet Ferrari is used to being an outcast. With her sharp tongue, she has always known how to defend herself against bullies and aggressors but finds she is less adept at fending off the pilgrims who have set up a veritable tent city outside her hilltop home, convinced she is Saint Garnet, healer of skin ailments and maker of miracles.
Her grandmother, the indelible Nonna Diamante, believes Garnet’smystical gift can be traced back to the family’s origins in the Nebrodi Mountains of Sicily, and now the Vatican has sent an emissary to Sweetwater to investigate. Garnet, wanting nothing more than to debunk this "gift" and send these desperate souls packing, reaches back into her family’s tangled past and unspools for the church a tale of love triangles on the shores of the Messina Strait; a sad, beautiful maiden’s gilded-cage childhood in blueblood Virginia; and the angelic, doomed boy Garnet could not protect.
Saint or not, Garnet learns that the line between reality and myth is always blurred and that the aspects of ourselves we are most ashamed of can prove to be the source of our greatest strength, and even our salvation.
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Highly recommend. Narrator was very engaging.
Good book
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This novel, nor the reader, hooked me right away. In fact, I first thought, "What a waste!" But I kept coming back because I hate wasting money, and when the story set in at last, it set in pretty solid and the voice and tone of the reader made sense. It's not apparent in the first few chapters how much heart is in the story. There's a ton of it. Just be patient. Something about the entire package grows on you in some weird way, and by the end, I was sad to say goodbye.The hook takes time to set.
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Hicks is a masterful reader who does an excellent job in the accents. it fondly brought to mind my own Nonna.
I highly recommend it.
Andie Ptak using hubby's account
Italian-American Magic Realism
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Sweet
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Great
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Meh.
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
yes, an absorbing, light read, originalWhat was one of the most memorable moments of The Patron Saint of Ugly?
Don't want to give it away, but the scene where Angelo & Nicky get in the carWhich scene was your favorite?
Hard to say, each is so different. Maybe when Nona takes the tape recorder.Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Both.Any additional comments?
The story and the narrator kept me engrossed in the book. Except for the very beginning, when you don't know who is who yet and the female reader is supposed to be a man, she did an excellent job. Light but not too light. Heavy, but not too heavy. Read it, and you will have something to think about. It would make a good book club selection.Quirky, lots to think about
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A Delightful Surprise
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Slow start
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good story
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