num_pages: 417
description: A New York Times bestsellerA TIME Magazine Top 10 Children's Book of 2015Saint Anything is a poignant honest story about how we might suffer the misfortune of someone else's bad choices how people who love us can become family when we desperately need it and how starting over might - miraculously - mean taking a solid leap forward. Jodi Picoult New York Times bestselling novelist of Leaving Time and My Sisters KeeperSydney has always felt invisible. She's grown accustomed to her brother Peyton being the focus of the familys attention and lately concern. Peyton is handsome and charismatic but seems bent on self-destruction. Now after a drunk-driving accident that crippled a boy Peytons serving some serious jail time and Sydney is on her own questioning her place in the family and the world.Then she meets the Chatham family. Drawn into their warm chaotic circle Sydney experiences unquestioning acceptance for the first time. Theres effervescent Layla who constantly falls for the wrong guy Rosie whos had her own fall from grace and Mrs. Chatham who even though ailing is the heart of the family. But its with older brother Macquiet watchful and protectivethat Sydney finally feels seen really seen at last.Saint Anything is Sarah Dessens deepest and most psychologically probing novel yet telling an engrossing story of a girl discovering friendship love and herself.
language: English
title: Saint Anything
publisher: Viking