Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
By Karen Armstrong
Only a remarkable life course could transform a devout nun into a sophisticated iconoclast. Armstrong...recounts precisely such a journey with an unflinching honesty that exposes unanticipated ironies in her personal metamorphosis. (from Booklist)
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My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two rooms. I could walk any aisle and smell wisdom.
-Rita Dove