MARY GORDON is the author of eight novels, including Final Payments, Pearl, and The Love of My Youth; six works of nonfiction, including the memoirs The Shadow Man and Circling My Mother; and three collections of short fiction, including The Stories of Mary Gordon, which was awarded the Story Prize. She has received many other honors, including a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Academy Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City.
"In her exceptional new novel, Gordon animates the contradictions
and subtleties of her outsider Catholicism, setting them within the
dramatic panorama that reads--improbably--as swiftly as an airport
paperback. . . . Throughout, Gordon illuminates her scenes with
kinetic precision." --Lorraine Adams, The New York Times Book
Review "A lovely, well-conceived, researched, and executed novel
about love, loss, and family . . . Beautifully depicts the horrors
of war and the beauty of the human heart that shines even amid
darkness. . . Mary Gordon has left big footsteps to fill for any
other author writing about this era of history." --Autumn Markus,
New York Journal of Books "Radiant . . . Gordon journeys deep into
the hearts and minds of women, still yearning, even at the last."
--Hamilton Cain, O, The Oprah Magazine "Deeply affecting." --The
National Book Review "[A] challenging, heartfelt novel about the
questions we can't avoid." --Tom Deignan, Commonweal "Beautifully
written . . . [Gordon] takes readers across two continents and two
generations to tell a story of life, love, religion and the art of
fearlessness." --Cary Knapp, Coastal Illustrated "Intellectually
and emotionally involving . . . [Translates] inexplicable and
inexpressible experience into understanding." --Ellen Akins,
Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Shifting points in time and points of view reveal a young woman
shaped by the zealotry that can emanate from family, faith, or war
. . . An emotionally and historically rich work with a strong
character portrait holding together its disparate parts." --Kirkus
Reviews (starred review) "Mary Gordon has been writing compelling
books about faith, love and family for four decades . . . There
Your Heart Lies depicts pleasure in the loving bonds between
generations and in acts of generosity and selflessness between
friends . . . Historically [and] emotionally satisfying." --Lauren
Bufferd, BookPage "In her eighth novel, Mary Gordon presents
important insight which inspires us to realize that lessons from
the past can help improve our lives . . . Highly recommended."
--Historical Novel Society "Commendable . . . Marian is a
delightful, absorbing character, illuminating both a period and a
place." --Publishers Weekly
"Who are you? Who am I? Those are the questions that echo
throughout Gordon's latest novel, [which] all Gordon fans will
appreciate . . . Sharply observed." --Library Journal
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