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    Half-Truths and Semi-Miracles
    Half-Truths and Semi-Miracles
    Half-Truths and Semi-Miracles
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    Half-Truths and Semi-Miracles

    By Anne Tyler

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    Available to readers for the first time since its initial publication, this is a wry and moving story by an American master.

    The first thing I tell people is, I’m just an ordinary woman. I’m just like you.

    Susanna has an incredible gift: she can heal ailments with just the touch of her hand.  People travel from far and wide based on their faith in her abilities. But Susanna’s power only works in certain cases—it’s a semi-miracle. And as she grows into a woman, and tries to build a life of her own, her calling to fix and cure becomes more of a burden than she could ever have imagined. Why is she able to take people’s pain away sometimes, and not others, not when she needs to most of all? With the balm of time, and the wisdom of experience, Susanna must learn to live with the mysterious nature of her miracle.


    “Not merely good . . . she is wickedly good.” —John Updike
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
    Release dateMay 29, 2018
    ISBN9780525565079
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      Half-Truths and Semi-Miracles - Anne Tyler

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      Anne Tyler

      Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She graduated at nineteen from Duke University and went on to do graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University. Tyler is the author of twenty novels; her eleventh, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

      BOOKS BY ANNE TYLER

      If Morning Ever Comes

      The Tin Can Tree

      A Slipping-Down Life

      The Clock Winder

      Celestial Navigation

      Searching for Caleb

      Earthly Possessions

      Morgan’s Passing

      Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

      The Accidental Tourist

      Breathing Lessons

      Saint Maybe

      Ladder of Years

      A Patchwork Planet

      Back When We Were Grownups

      The Amateur Marriage

      Digging to America

      Noah’s Compass

      The Beginner’s Goodbye

      A Spool of Blue Thread

      Vinegar Girl

      Half-Truths and Semi-Miracles

      Anne Tyler

      A Vintage Short

      Vintage Books

      A Division of Penguin Random House LLC

      New York

      Copyright © 1974 by Anne Tyler

      All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

      Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

      This story originally appeared in Cosmopolitan magazine in December 1974.

      Ebook ISBN 9780525565079

      Cover design by Adalis Martinez

      www.vintagebooks.com

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      Contents

      Cover

      About the Author

      Books by Anne Tyler

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Half-Truths and Semi-Miracles

      The first thing I tell people is, I’m just an ordinary woman. I’m just like you, I say, I can see they don’t believe me. They have all these preconceived notions. Maybe they expect me to be tall and blonde and beautiful, maybe in a long white robe or something of chiffon, loose and floating. The fact is that I am five foot two, a little overweight, my hair is gray. I generally wear a nice flowered dress and a string of pearls. When I am working out at the church I add an Orion cardigan. The church is apt to be

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