Faith (28 page)

I would like to thank the Anderson Center, the Ucross Foundation and the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators, where portions of this book were written.

Paul Dinter, author of the excellent memoir
The Other Side of the Altar
(FSG, 2003), taught me a great deal about life in the priesthood. Patrick Lamb, Michael Schiavone, Michael Rezendes and Dr. Donald Yee also shared generously of their expertise.

Through the
annus terribilis
, Jack Shapiro kept me alive.

Peter Nichols and Marjorie Brasem were loving and supportive early readers. Dan Pope and Dorian Karchmar worked their usual magic. Geir Angell Øygarden appeared just in time.

Juliette Shapland has helped my books find readers around the world. And Claire Wachtel, Jonathan Burnham and Michael Morrison have given my work a marvelous home. Again and always, I am grateful.

About the Author

JENNIFER HAIGH
is the author of the
New York Times
bestsellers
The Condition
;
Baker Towers
, winner of the 2006 PEN/L.L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author; and
Mrs. Kimble
, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Her short stories have appeared in the
Atlantic
,
Granta
, the
Saturday Evening Post
, and many other publications. She lives in the Boston area. www.jenniferhaigh.com

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This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

FAITH
. Copyright © 2011 by Jennifer Haigh.

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FIRST EDITION

EPub Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780062079367

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Haigh, Jennifer
Faith : a novel / Jennifer Haigh.
    p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-06-075580-5 (hardback)
ISBN 978-0-06-208436-1 (International Edition)
I. Title.
PS3608.A544F35  2011
813'.6—dc22

2010043160

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