Wandering Between Two Worlds by Anita Mathias

Wandering Between Two Worlds by Anita Mathias

In these wide-ranging lyrical essays, Anita Mathias writes, in lush, lovely prose, of her naughty Catholic childhood in Jamshedpur, India; her large, eccentric family in Mangalore, a sea-coast town converted by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century; her rebellion and atheism as a teenager in her Himalayan boarding school, run by German missionary nuns, St. Mary's Convent, Nainital; and her abrupt religious conversion after which she entered Mother Teresa's convent in Calcutta as a novice. Later rich, elegant essays explore the dualities of her life as a writer, mother, and Christian in the United States-- Domesticity and Art, Writing and Prayer, and the experience of being an alien and stranger as an immigrant in America, sensing the need for roots.

Mathias, Anita: - Anita Mathias is the author of Wandering Between Two Worlds (Benediction Classics, 2007) and a children's book, Francesco, Artist of Florence: The Man Who Gave Too Much. She has won a writing fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts, and her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The London Magazine, Commonweal, America, The Christian Century, and The Best Spiritual Writing anthologies. She has blogged for Tearfund in Cambodia. Anita has a BA and MA in English from Somerville College, Oxford University, and an MA in Creative Writing from the Ohio State University. She lives in Oxford, England with her husband and daughters, and blogs at anitamathias.com.

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ISBN 13	9780955373701
ISBN 10	0955373700
Title	Wandering Between Two Worlds
Author	Anita Mathias
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Benediction Books
Year published	2007-05-22
Number of pages	160
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