Gives nuns from varying backgrounds and orders a chance to speak openly about themselves. The author's questions are sharp, sympathetic and challenging; their answers are frank and uninhibited. Some... This description may be from another edition of this product.
This book offers the reader an "inside" look at ten different nuns. The author, Loudon records her interviews and her accounts may turn your assumptions and pedjudices about convent life inside out. These nuns range in age from 35 to 76 and the lives they lead range from strict enclosure to holding jobs "on the outside". Some of their stories are bizarre, moving, inspiring and even shocking. In their own words they answer why women become nuns,
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