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Traces the author's midlife decision to join the Catholic Church after years of alcoholism, in a personal account that describes the role of her unfulfilling legal career, battle with breast cancer, and devastating family losses in her conversion.
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An NPR commentator's story of an unlikely epiphany and the healing power of faith. After years of sleeping around, working as a waitress, and suffering booze-induced blackouts, Heather King settled into sobriety, marriage, and a financially lucrative but unfulfilling career in a Beverly Hills law firm. In this fervent, darkly funny tale, she describes the steps of her journey from a sexless marriage through divorce, the death of her father, and breast cancer. As someone who had reached middle age "never believing in much of anything," she found herself in the last place she thought she'd end up: the Catholic Church.--From publisher description.
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