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Also by Mary Gordon:

The Love Of My Youth, April 2011
Hardcover
Circling My Mother, August 2007
Hardcover
Final Payments, June 2006
Trade Size
Pearl, April 2006
Trade Size (reprint)
Joan of Arc, March 2000
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The Shadow Man, May 1997
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PEARL
By: Mary Gordon

Pearl is a grand and emotionally daring novel of ideas, told with the tension of a thriller.

Anchor
April 2006
368 pages
ISBN: 1400078075
Trade Size (reprint)
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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.

Media Buzz

Bill Moyers on Faith and Reason - July 1, 2006
Fresh Air - NPR - March 31, 2006