Miracle girl
By: Keith Scribner.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Vietnamese Americans -- Fiction.; Deaf women -- Fiction.; Catholics -- Fiction.; Miracles -- Fiction.; New York (State) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When an apparent miracle rocks economically depressed Hudson City, NewYork, John Quinn--whose work for the Roman Catholic diocese has shifted from the space management he loves to property sales--is initially involved just in finding space for the pilgrims pouring into town. They come to see the miracle girl, 30-year-old Sue Phong, the deaf orphaned daughter of a Vietnamese woman and African American soldier, who appeared in the dream of a deaf man whose hearing was suddenly restored. As reports of cures increase, Quinn's life comes crashing down around him: he's betrayed both by his real estate broker buddy (who's reporting Quinn to the IRS) and by the woman he loves (who's carrying on an e-mail relationship with another man). Finally, Quinn's own capacity for betrayal is tested by the miracle girl herself.