Particular Friendships: A Convent Memoir
Document Type
Book
ISBN
1462808115
Publication Date
5-15-2006
Description
Particular Friendships: A Convent Memoir offers a rare glimpse inside the walls of a Roman Catholic convent in the late 1960s. The young narrator arrives with gentle visions spawned by The Sound of Music, only to encounter the harshness of life in this secretive society. Her wit, compassion, and musicality foment a rebellion against rules forbidding expressions of joy and intimacy, as she struggles between allegiance to the heart and her vow of blind obedience to flawed and abusive superiors. Recently filed lawsuits against the Church suggest that the timing could not be better for an ex-nuns memoir. Part mystery, part coming of age story, this narrative seeks neither to damn nor to exonerate but to uncover the truth.
Publisher
Xlibris Corporation
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Religion
NSUWorks Citation
Waites, Kate. Particular Friendships: A Convent Memoir.: Xlibris Corporation.