A successful academic in her thirties is harboring a traumatic teenage past. Unexpectedly, she has the opportunity to spend the Christmas holiday alone in her old childhood home, now a vacation rental, in a small town in the middle of nowhere in Idaho. Sixteen years earlier, she had fled town without saying goodbye, shaking its dust off her feet, happy to be set free. But now she is eager to come to terms with her past—and perhaps re-examine her future. Such is the premise of Abigail Favale’s moving recent novel, Our Lady of the Sign. It almost sounds like something that could be a plot of a Hallmark Channel film, but it is anything but that—even if there is the requisite Hallmark-style tension in the air, as the protagonist must choose between her teenage love and her current boyfriend.
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