02243cam a2200349 4500 264303464 TxAuBib 20151217120000.0 021209s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2002043322 9780375412110 $25.95 0375412115 $25.95 (OCoLC)51223567 TxAuBib Guterson, David. Our Lady of the Forest / David Guterson. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. 323 p. ; 25 cm. [This novel] is about a teenage girl, Ann Holmes, who claims to see the Virgin Mary. A sixteen-year-old runaway, Ann is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent. But on a November afternoon, in the foggy woods of North Fork, Washington, the Virgin comes to her, clear as day. Father Collins - a young priest new to North Fork - finds Ann disturbingly alluring. But it is up to him to evaluate - impartially - the veracity of Ann's sightings: Are they delusions, or a true calling to God? As word spreads and thousands, including the press, converge upon the town, Carolyn Greer, a smart-talking fellow mushroomer, becomes Ann's disciple of sorts, as well as her impromptu publicity manager. And Tom Cross, an embittered logger who has been out of work since his son was paralyzed in a terrible accident, finds in Ann's visions a last chance for redemption for both himself and his son. As Father Collins searches his own soul and Ann's, as Carolyn struggles with her less than admirable intentions, as Tom alternates between despair and hope, [the novel] tells a suspenseful, often wryly humorous, and deeply involving story of faith at a contemporary crossroads. 20031010. Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint Apparitions and miracles Fiction. Migrant agricultural laborers Fiction. Runaway teenagers Fiction. Mushroom industry Fiction. Teenage girls Fiction. Loggers Fiction. Clergy Fiction. Washington (State) Fiction. Psychological fiction. TXHAM