We told Cathy’s mom to make the reviews short and sweet. She’s a little bit of a smart ass.
Is this how short you want something?
A story of a 1960’s Irish convent and the nuns and girls within. The writer keeps the reader hoping that good overcomes evil.
This is a story of some nuns that were worse than any nun that told you the dog and I couldn’t to to heaven (editor’s note: true story. It’s one of the reasons I’m no longer Catholic) because we weren’t Catholic. These nuns had their own demons and used physical and emotional abuse on the girls who were sent to the convent for either real or imagined sins. The entire time I read it I hoped something bad would happen to the nuns.
The Magdalen Girls
V.S. Alexander
December 27, 2016
304 pages
Cathy’s mom objected to us suggesting all she does in retirement is shop and read. At her request, we’re also adding this: “All I do is shop and read? I do so much more. I rake the damn oak leaves until my back hurts and my blue sneakers turn green from the pollen. 31 big trash bags to-date from my oak tree that started as a mere stick from the free tree give-away in Clearwater over 25 years ago. I am a versatile person.”
This article appears in Mar 30 – Apr 6, 2017.
