Forever and Ever, Amen Hardcover - 2007
by Jackowski, Karol
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
A funny, poignant account of a young woman's experiences becoming a Catholic nun during the tumultuous 1960s.
In 1964, Karol Jackowski was an eighteen-year-old girl just out of high school. But while her friends were heading off to college or finding their first jobs, Karol was following a different path. To the surprise of her family and friends, she decided to enter the convent of the Sisters of the Holy Cross in South Bend, Indiana, and spend the next eight years studying to become a Catholic nun.
Those years were a time of enormous change in the country and in the Church. They were times of joy, dedication, and a great deal of fun, set against the Second Vatican Council and the reforms it fostered, many of which remain controversial today. In this playful and candid memoir, Jackowski pulls back the curtain on the mysteries of convent life, as she recounts her rocky transition from worldly teenager to cloistered postulant; the trials she faced in coping with the restrictions of convent life ("nun of this and nun of that"); and the lessons she learned from the elderly nuns she was assigned to, who weren't nearly as pious as people thought. In prose that's as lively, insightful, and wise as she is, the author of Ten Fun Things to do Before You Die brings us a touching and heartfelt memoir of a woman following her true calling.
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- Title Forever and Ever, Amen
- Author Jackowski, Karol
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 306
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, New York
- Date March 15, 2007
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1594489378.G
- ISBN 9781594489372 / 1594489378
- Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 8.44 x 5.84 x 1.06 in (21.44 x 14.83 x 2.69 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006039268
- Dewey Decimal Code B
