Synopses & Reviews
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year--now available in paperback.
When Marguerite Daigle, a "seventh generation lapsed Louisiana Catholic," develops a drinking problem, her eight-year-old daughter Penny runs wild, and her teenage daughter Mahalia flees into the arms of a fanatical right-to-lifer, Isabel Flood, who provides the structure Mahalia has been craving. With a tension that builds from the first page, I Loved You All is a lyrical, funny and moving portrait of family life and of the peculiarly American politics of abortion rights.
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"Sharp has the born novelist's gift of breathing life into her characters. I loved this book . . . Sharp's gifts are enormous." (Craig Seligman, New York Times Book Review)
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"This story is a book-discussion group's dream." (Barbara Lloyd McMichael, Seattle Times)
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"[T]his beautifully written story . . . will resonate with all those who have ever laughed or cried at their own family's absurdities." (Olivia Abel, People)
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". . . wonderfully inventive." (Stephen Amidon, USA Today)
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"The leading character has the depth and energy to become indispensable to people whose lives or children are out of control." (New York Times, Notable Book of the Year)
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"Sharp brilliantly navigates the political and religious waters that swirl around the pro-life movement." (Publishers Weekly)
About the Author
Paula Sharp is the author of The Woman Who Was Not All There, The Imposter, and Lost in Jersey City, and a translator of Latin American fiction, including Antonio Skármeta's novel The Insurrection. Her books have won her the Quality Paperback Book Club's New Voice Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the Wisconsin Library Association Banta Award. A graduate of Columbia Law School, she practices criminal law in New York.