Enter a Mysterious, Cloistered World Full of Passion and Regret, Where the Lines Between the Sexual, Artistic, and Religious Become Blurred.
This achingly beautiful and revelatory first novel is the story of three generations of strong-willed women and their battles to balance personal longings with the disciplines of their church: Meghan, who dismisses the priest's injunctions about sex until tragedy befalls her family; Kate, who so fears God's power to destroy that she shuts herself off from emotion completely; and, finally, Elise, whose connection to unknowable forces drives...

What can I not live without? What is strong enough to endure the challenges life brings? What is steady enough to survive intact through every change? What is, at the same time, so common, so ordinary, so natural that it warms my heart and gives peace to my mind? This is my Finding Stone. FINDING STONE: An invitation to join Finding Woman on a journey to find your Stone of healing, wisdom, and power. FINDING STONE: A quiet parable and soul-work reflections employing the ancient meditative practice of standing before Life's mysteries. FINDING STONE: A book to be read slowly, kept by your bed,...

Where the Great Plains begin, at the border of Minnesota and North Dakota, three families struggle with the land and with one another over generations. Distance and silence cut into their minds and hearts, knife on bone. Some hide from their suffering, some run, some turn to violence and greed. Into this wound comes the "mongrel child" Hannah, who opens herself to the remains of her people. In search of healing, she makes the hero's journey to the core of their affliction and back.