Like Kathleen Norris and Madeleine L'Engle, Susan Tiberghien tackles the spiritual memoir to luminous results. While her style is both contemplative and poetic, she reflects on very earthy matters: her childhood summoned up by the death of her father, her marriage to a Frenchman, her moving away to Europe, her conversion to Catholicism, her caring for an aging mother-in-law, and her parenting a daughter with anorexia and an adopted son acting out the pain of his earlier life. Through this all is woven Tiberghien's story of spiritual dryness and the method of prayer she developed experientially that led at last to her rebirth.
