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Lives of the Saints Marcela Fuentes in community--and the defining momentsBy: Nancy Lemann Published by New York Review of Books, 2026 04 07 Fresh out of college in New England, a young woman returns home to New Orleans and is quickly pulled back into the citys wastrel youth contingent in this cult classic novel of love and decadence, now with a new introduction. Nancy Lemanns voice is one of the most unusual in American fiction, unabashedly digressive, weirdly and wonderfully confiding, as witty as it is melancholy, an