This novel, based on a true story, illustrates the life of a brilliant nun, consecrated to her God and her community of sisters, who never forgets the Polish-American family she left behind. The story... This description may be from another edition of this product.
This book does two things. It sympathetically recreates the now largely disappeared world of 1940's and 50's ethnic,in this case Polish-American, religious faith and culture.And in the remarkably mature relationship of its two main characters,a young, truth-seeking boy becoming a man through the inspired guidance of his Religous aunt, we see a vibrant,uniquely American Catholicism being born. Highly recommended as a look back into a cherished past and a window on what it became.
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