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A Story of Evil, Blessings, Grace, and Solace
Viking
March 2013
On Sale: March 7, 2013
240 pages
ISBN: 0670025755
EAN: 9780670025756
Kindle: B008EKOO64
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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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