Beverly Donofrio

Astonished (eBook, ePUB)

A Story of Healing and Finding Grace

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A bestselling memoirist bravely tells the story of the night evil paid her a visit-and how prayer chased evil away Beverly Donofrio had already lived two lives, first as a scrappy young mother on the streets of the East Village and later as the bestselling author of Riding in Cars with Boys. By the time she reached her fifties, she thought she had seen it all. Now, even though she was living in a vibrant, picturesque Mexican town, where she practiced yoga, drank margaritas in her backyard, and took salsa lessons, she felt lost and was searching for monasteries to visit. The religious practice that had nourished her for several years had faded. She missed God. Then one night she woke to find a rapist holding a knife to her throat. So begins the memoir that charts Donofrio's journey-a long and twisting road through denial, mourning, anger, vulnerability, and retreat at five very different monasteries. Told through Donofrio's brutally honest, often ribald, emotionally unsparing voice, Astonished is a tender and hopeful narrative of healing and learning to love life again.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781101606094
• Artikelnr.: 44653242

Autorenporträt

Beverly Donofrio lived for four years as a lay Carmelite at Nada Hermitage in Colorado, where she began this book. The acclaimed author of Riding in Cars with Boys and Looking for Mary, she teaches for the MFA program at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania.