Our Lady of the Forest

From David Gutersonbestselling author ofSnow Falling on Cedarscomes this emotionally charged, provocative novel about what happens when a fifteen-year-old girl becomes an instrument of divine grace. Ann Holmes is a fragile, pill-popping teenaged runaway who receives a visitation from the Virgin Mary one morning while picking mushrooms in the woods of North Fork, Washington. In the ensuing days the miracle recurs, and the declining logging town becomes the site of a pilgrimage of the faithful and desperate. As these people flock to Annand as Ann herself is drawn more deeply into what is either holiness or madnessOur Lady of the Forestseamlessly splices the miraculous and the mundane.

David Guterson is the author of a collection of short stories, <b>The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind; Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense; Snow Falling on Cedars</b>, which won the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award, the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association Award, and was an international bestseller; and the national bestseller <b>East of the Mountains</b>.