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Saint Maybe is the rich and absorbing story of a young man s guilt over his brother s death and his struggle to atone for the wrong he feels he has done.

On a quiet street in Baltimore in 1965, seventeen-year-old Ian Bedloe lives with his family in an ideal, apple-pie household, enjoying the comfort of family traditions and indulging in all the usual dreams of the future. Until one night, when Ian s stinging words to his brother bring tragedy — and from that careless moment on nothing can ever be the same.

Anne Tyler takes us along Ian s painful and poignant quest for forgiveness, from the Church of the Second Chance to Ian s gratifying, solitary work as a carpenter. Raising the three children that are thrust on him, he finds himself amazed, drowning in family and duty. Then, out of the very heart of the domestic clutter, a light begins to flash.