With humor and discernment, Wise invites the reader into her Irish Catholic childhood and reveals candid insights into her life as a young nun, her unique experiences in Africa as a medical missionary, and her expulsion from a country she loved and a vocation that had come to define her. Over the course of seventeen months in 1970s rural Malawi, the steady accumulation of unrelenting conflicts'a clash of world views, a patriarchal church, and the precious yet forbidden surprise of a first love'propels Sister Aimee through a cascade of crises and losses she could never have anticipated.
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