{"product_id":"wandering-between-two-worlds-essays-on-faith-and-art-9780955373701","title":"Wandering Between Two Worlds: Essays on Faith and Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Anita Mathias\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Benediction Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Benediction Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Christian Living - Spiritual Growth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn wide-ranging lyrical, prize-winning essays, Anita Mathias writes of her naughty Catholic childhood in Jamshedpur, India; her large, eccentric family in Mangalore, a seacoast town converted by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century; her rebellion and atheism as a teenager at St. Mary's Convent, Nainital, her Himalayan boarding school, run by German missionary nuns; and her abrupt religious conversion after which she entered Mother Teresa's convent in Calcutta as a novice, where she worked for two years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLater elegant essays explore the dualities of her life as a writer, mother, and Christian in the United States- torn between the call to write, her desire for a life of prayer, and the imperatives of domesticity, all the while navigating the experience of being \"an alien and stranger\" as an immigrant in America, yearning to set down roots...somewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Benediction Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47780983996567,"sku":"9780955373701","price":907.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780955373701.webp?v=1778049691","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/wandering-between-two-worlds-essays-on-faith-and-art-9780955373701","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}