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In her achingly beautiful and revelatory first novel, Christin Lore Weber, a former nun, explores the nature and power of passion -- sexual, religious, and artistic -- and brings us into a mysterious, cloistered world rarely made public. Set in the wild, rock-and-lake region of northern Minnesota, this is an exquisitely told tale of three generations of strong-willed women and their inner battles to balance personal longings with the disciplines of their church. Meghan, in the first generation, dismisses the priest's injunctions regarding sex and succumbs to her passion for her husband. But when family tragedy strikes, she believes she has been brought down by the hand of God himself for her sexual indulgence. In the second generation, Kate is so afraid of what God could take away --'husbands, fathers, brothers, music even. God could take your life if he wanted'-- that she learns to steel herself against any deep emotion or desire, to simply'endure, be faithful, and hope to be spared some small thing she loved, something perhaps God didn't want.'By the third generation, the passions that moved her mother and grandmother have converged and intensified in young Elise, who is roused b

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Author

Weber, Christin Lore

Publisher

New York : Scribner

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780684868660

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller

Rating

3.18 / 5 (48 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14