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Bridgeport Public Library : Chapter Chat -- The Patron Saint of Ugly by Marie Manilla

Bridgeport, WV – The group will discuss The Patron Saint of Ugly by Marie Manilla on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 at 6:00pm. See Sarah at the library to borrow copies of the book, but quantities are limited. Manilla is a West Virginia author and will be at the library for a book signing event on Wednesday, November 5, 2014 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm.

If you have questions about this program, please contact Sarah Nora at 304-842-8248. About Chapter Chat “Chapter Chat” is the library’s second and newest book discussion group. The program launched in September 2014. The group is designed to accommodate patrons observing regular working hours and those interested in discussing books published within the last year. LibraryReads, a non-profit organization that accepts and organizes book reviews from librarians nationwide in order to release a monthly list of the ten best new books, will be a frequent source for the group’s reading material. About The Patron Saint of Ugly by 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 she finds she is less adept at fending off the pilgrims who have set up a veritable tent city outside her hilltop home, convinced that she is Saint Garnet, healer of skin ailments and maker of miracles. Her grandmother, the indelible Nonna Diamante, believes that Garnet’s mystical 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. Source: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18222722-the-patron-saint-of-ugly