Where God Begins to Be: A Woman's Journey into Solitude by Karen Fredette is a gentle book about a former nun’s journey to a solitary life. In many ways, her journey to solitude in small house in West Virginnia is the inverse of what most of us would experience. She became a nun when she was a teen, and lived in a community for twenty years. Then she lived a solitary life. Eventually, she left that life, and married (this is not covered in the book). Most of us would approach solitude from the angle of having a family, entering a religious community, and then seeking solitude.
Fredette is a a gentle soul, telling a heartening tale of simplicity and the quest for compassion without tricks or artifice.
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