by Deborah Larsen

In 1960, nineteen-year-old Deborah and several other young women head for a convent on the Iowa bluffs of the Mississippi, intent on pursuing their desire to become nuns but unaware of the pleasures, temptations, and emotional complexities of the world they are about to leave behind, in a memoir that journeys inside the comfort and strangeness of the rigidly structured life in a convent. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.