From David Gutersonbestselling author of Snow 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.
