This story was compelling enough to keep me happily reading it on my long flight home from Rome to Boston. It is about everyday people who struggle with what life had dealt them, and who make the best decisions they can to more forward. They are compassionate, but by no means perfect, which is definitely something I can identify with.
This story was compelling enough to keep me happily reading it on my long flight home from Rome to Boston. It is about everyday people who struggle with what life had dealt them, and who make the best decisions they can to more forward. They are compassionate, but by no means perfect, which is definitely something I can identify with.
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In this newly publish memoir Sister Helen tells of her childhood, of taking vows and joining the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille, and of her life fighting for the abolition of the death penalty. The book stops at1982 when she met Patrick Sollier, whom she had previously written about in Dead Man Walking. You may have read (or seen the film) of this riveting account of their friendship while he was on death row and when she accompanied him to his execution in 1988. This was just the right book for me as I rush around handling my busy life before two weeks as a solitary travel in Rome and Florence. I will be easier to become invisible amongst the tourists at St. Peter’s Square or on the Ponte Vecchio than if I were to wander off on the Tuscan countryside. I can’t wait to be conscious of disappearing. |
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