Saint Mazie: A Novel by Attenberg Jami

Author:Attenberg, Jami [Attenberg, Jami]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2015-06-02T04:00:00+00:00

Mazie’s Diary, April 16, 1921

Sister Tee’s been telling me about some of the saints. She says every kind of person has their own kind of saint to watch over them. I told her about my date with Mack and it made her titter.

She said: Saint Liberata, patron saint of unwanted suitors and marriages.

She stands at the cage and rattles off their life stories. Better than the gossip rags sometimes. Better than my life anyway. Some saints begin their lives imperfect and then turn into something special. Sister Tee says we are the sum of our imperfections. We sin and then we learn from our sins.

Sister Tee said: You can do wrong and then turn right.

I said: You believe that?

Because I truly needed to believe it, too.

I want saints for everything. Saint of Free Spirits. Saint of Dancing Fools. Saint of the Ocean. Saint of the Sky. Saint of the Moon. Saint of the Lovers. I want to feel watched over and safe, but from afar. I like to think about all the saints looking over me. They’re above and I’m below.

I know they’re not real. I’m no fool. Only it’s sweet to have something to dream about in that cage of mine.

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