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Alice McDermott: Child of My Heart

An unusually tender conversation with Alice McDermott about grace, imagined here as the act of putting others before oneself...

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By Michael Silverblatt • Jul 24, 2003 • 30m Listen

An unusually tender conversation with Alice McDermott about grace, imagined here as the act of putting others before oneself. Child of My Heart (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), which seems to be about a childhood rite of passage, is actually about memory, devotion and the building of a shrine to a personal saint. Read an

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