Description: On a Monday morning in April at the close of the twentieth century, a middle-aged woman walks into her living room to water the plants and finds a woman standing beside the fig tree. The woman is wearing a navy blue trench coat and white running shoes. She has a white shawl draped over her hair and is carrying a large leather purse and a small black suitcase. This exhausted stranger introduces herself as Mary. Yes. That Mary, and our narrator has no doubt that it's true. Mary needs some rest and stunned though she is, our narrator naturally obliges. As the story of their week together unfolds, so does the story of Mary: her significance throughout history, her religious and symbolic relevance in the modern world, her changing image as represented in both classical and contemporary art, and, of course, the apparitions. According to reliable sources, Mary has made more than 20,000 appearances in the last 2,000 years. A fictional treatment of one of the most complex and powerful female figures of all time, Our Lady of the Lost and Found is a novel about faith, writing, and the search for meaning in the modern world. Beneath the humor and irony is a serious look at spirituality and our need to believe in something larger than ourselves.

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