Wandering Between Two Worlds

Download or read book Wandering Between Two Worlds written by Anita Mathias and published by Benediction Classics . This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In lyrical essays, Wandering between Two Worlds explores Anita Mathias's naughty Catholic childhood in India; her large, eccentric extended family in the Catholic sea-coast town of Mangalore; her rebellion and atheism as a teenager in St. Mary's Convent, Nainital, her Himalayan boarding school, run by German missionary nuns; and her abrupt religious conversion whereupon she entered Mother Teresa's convent as a novice. Later essays explore the dualities of her life as a writer, mother, and Christian in America—“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