**NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the award-winning, bestselling author of
Snow Falling on Cedars comes an emotionally charged, provocative novel
about what happens when a fifteen-year-old pill-popping runaway receives
a visitation from the Virgin Mary. - "Surely one of this year's best
novels."--The Plain Dealer
**
Ann Holmes is a fragile teenaged runaway who receives a visitation from
the Virgin Mary one morning while picking mushrooms in the woods of
North Fork, Washington. In the ensuing days the miracle recurs, and the
declining logging town becomes the site of a pilgrimage of the faithful
and desperate. As these people flock to Ann--and as Ann herself is drawn
more deeply into what is either holiness or madness--Our Lady of the
Forest--seamlessly splices the miraculous and the mundane.