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When the Saints : a novel / Sarah Mian.

by Mian, Sarah.

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Harper Avenue, c2015.

Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.

Margaret and John Savage First Book Award.

Dartmouth Book Award.

Nova Scotia -- Fiction.

9781443431071 (trade pbk.)

278 p. ; 23 cm.

A decade after being cast off to live with strangers, Tabby Saint returns to Solace River, Nova Scotia, to find her childhood home deserted. She quickly latches on to the lonely tavern-keeper, West, who informs her that her family was run out of town. Tabby heads out to nearby Jubilant to find the fragments of her family: her addict sister, Poppy, and her two young kids; her brothers, Bird and Jackie, one crippled by a vicious attack and the other holding a dangerous grudge against the men responsible; a threadbare version of the bulletproof mother she remembers; and an ailing father, a man so vile he is unworthy of forgiveness even on his deathbed. Irreverent and mouthy as they ever were, the Saints are still a lightning rod for trouble. When a new storm arises, Tabby must choose whether to stay or run back the way she came.

Winner of the Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, 2016.

Winner of the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, 2016.

Canadian fiction.

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