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Reviewed on December 15, 2016 | LJReviews12.15.16
In this memoir, Saldaña meets Frederic, who is a monk, in a monastery in Syria and they fall in love. This sounds like the story's happy ending (for more on this, read the author's Bread and Angels), but instead, this is where Saldaña's narrative starts. She and Frederic, now a former monk, marry in France yet seek a place to live where they both feel at home. Both are deeply spiritual and profoundly religious, and they decide that the holy city...Log In or Sign Up to Read More