![]() ![]() In her own mind she was a complete failure: as a nun, as an academic, and as a normal woman capable of intimacy. Her deep solitude and a terrifying illness–diagnosed only years later as epilepsy-marked her forever as an outsider. But convent life had profoundly altered her, and coping with the outside world and her expiring faith proved to be excruciating. After seven brutally unhappy years as a nun, she left her order to pursue English literature at Oxford. In 1962, at age seventeen, Karen Armstrong entered a convent, eager to meet God. It fills the reader with hope.” - The Washington Post Book World “A story about becoming human, being recognized, finally recognizing oneself…. ![]() ![]()
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