![]() ![]() “Little by little, she reveals her world,” Babitt says. In a journey that’s both electrifying and terrifying, Babitt follows Mary Grace down a shadowy path-the end of which readers won’t easily forget.īabitt kept speaking to Mary Grace to discover more of the novel’s fictional setting, a town held in the grip of religion, aptly named Repentance. Haunted by the disappearances of her classmates in childhood, her nightmares brutally resurface when another child vanishes 24 years later. ![]() SAVING GRACE follows Mary Grace, shown in parallel as the adult sheriff she will become, as she struggles with loss in a community full of secrets. The voice of this particular little girl would be hard for anyone to ignore. The native New Yorker will readily admit that the Southern location of her novel is not one she had a personal connection with, but the 11-year-old girl from Arkansas, who would become Babitt’s protagonist Mary Grace Dobbs, held the author’s ear firmly. ![]() Thanks to her performer background, it’s the voices of Babitt’s characters that come to her first. Yet it was Babitt’s experience as an actor that she found most essential in writing her debut, SAVING GRACE. Author Debbie Babitt describes herself as having had many creative incarnations: playwright, drama critic-not to mention copy director for two major Manhattan publishing companies. ![]()
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