On Christmas night of 1998, Maria Meyers learns that her
twenty-year-old daughter, Pearl, has chained herself outside
the American embassy in Dublin, where she intends to starve
herself to death. Although Maria was once a student radical
and still proudly lives by her beliefs, gentle, book-loving
Pearl has never been interested in politics�nor in the
Catholicism her mother rejected years before. What, then, is
driving her to martyr herself?
Shaken by this mystery, Maria and her childhood friend (and
Pearl�s surrogate father), Joseph Kasperman, both rush to
Pearl�s side. As Mary Gordon tells the story of the bonds
among them, she takes us deep into the labyrinths of
maternal love, religious faith, and Ireland�s tragic
history. Pearl is a grand and emotionally daring novel of
ideas, told with the tension of a thriller.
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