Wandering Between Two Worlds

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In wide-ranging lyrical prize-winning essays Anita Mathias writes of her naughty Catholic childhood in Jamshedpur India; her large eccentric family in Mangalore a seacoast town converted by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century; her rebellion and atheism as a teenager at St. Mary's Convent Nainital her Himalayan boarding school run by German missionary nuns; and her abrupt religious conversion after which she entered Mother Teresa's convent in Calcutta as a novice where she worked for two years.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Later elegant essays explore the dualities of her life as a writer mother and Christian in the United States- torn between the call to write her desire for a life of prayer and the imperatives of domesticity all the while navigating the experience of being an alien and stranger as an immigrant in America yearning to set down roots...somewhere.</span></p>