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Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong's intimate memoir of life inside a Catholic convent. With refreshing honesty and clarity, the book takes readers on a revelatory adventure that begins with Armstrong's decision in the course of her spiritual training offers a fascinating view into a shrouded religious life, and a vivid, moving account of the spiritual coming age of one of our most loved and respected interpreters of religious.
From the acclaimed author of A History of God comes a brilliant, unforgettable account of the formative, rigorous, often heart-rending spiritual journey that changed her life--seven years spent as a postulant and nun in a Roman Catholic convent. "Written with affection, some humor, and a bittersweet regret."--Kirkus Reviews. Photos.
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