Publisher's Synopsis
Emmeline Wilson enters the order of the Sisters of the Suffering Savior at the age of thirteen through an "Aspirancy," an initial step towards religious life, before the position of Postulancy, or the Noviate. Her desire, indeed her obsession is to become a saint. Having immersed herself in The Lives of the Saints, she leaves her large, difficult family for years of mortification, isolation, and most importantly, deep and abiding silence. How will a girl endowed with perhaps too much imagination, abundant spirit, and a deep passion for all things alive manage in this place of denial, this place where human ego is removed piece by piece? Great courage will be required for her to keep dancing, singing, and recording her days in spite of her semi-cloistered life. Courage to point her from the darkness into the light.
