Saint Maybe | Ideas for Group Discussions
Saint Maybe explores the ambivalences of family relationships, just as other Tyler novels do. In addition, it moves from sickness to health, imprisonment to freedom, and fragmentation to wholeness as other novels do.
Tyler also takes a new tack in this novel, treating sin and redemption for the first time in religious terms and, in addition, presenting a religious character sympathetically. Although characters in other novels commit acts one might consider sins — abusing one's children, for example — the characters themselves never express guilt or a need for...
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