Our Lady of the Lost and Found

One Monday morning in April a middle-aged writer walks into her living room to water the plants and finds a woman standing beside her potted fig tree. Dressed in a navy blue trench coat and white Nikes the woman introduces herself as Mary. Mother of God.... You know. Mary. Instead of a golden robe or a crown she arrives bearing a practical wheeled suitcase. Weary after two thousand years of adoration and petition Mary is looking for a little R & R. She's asked in for lunch and decides to stay a week. As the story of their visit unfolds so does the story of Mary-one of the most complex and powerful female figures of our time-and her changing image in culture art history as well as the thousands of recorded sightings that have placed her everywhere from a privet hedge to the dented bumper of a Camaro. <p/>As this Everywoman and Mary become friends their conversations both profound and intimate touch upon Mary's significance and enduring relevance. Told with humor and grace <b>Our Lady of the Lost and Found</b> is an absorbing tour through Mary's history and a thoughtful meditation on spirituality our need for faith and our desire to believe in something larger than ourselves.