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Finding forgiveness within the family.

Publication: National Catholic Reporter
Publication Date: 20-MAY-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Finding forgiveness within the family.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
PEARL By Mary Gordon Pantheon Books, 368 pages, $24.95

Mary Gordon has once again created a literary engagement with atonement. It is primarily a story about a mother, Maria, and her daughter, Pearl. The 20-year-old daughter has always been puzzlingly passive, detached and somewhat withdrawn, a member of a generation Gordon describes as "sullen, worried, ill at ease." Like so many of her peers, Pearl has spent her adolescence watching way too much MTV and has refused from an early age to share her mother's interests, which are primarily social justice causes. Maria is a single mother who conceived Pearl with a courageous young Cambodian physician who escaped...

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