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Looking for Mary, or, The Blessed Mother and me
"When Beverly Donofrio enters her fortieth year, she begins a love affair with the Virgin Mary. Suffering over a grown son she's neglected and unsure of where her life is really headed, she feels she's entered her own version of Dante's dark wood. So she begins to meditate and to collect Virgin Marys at yard sales. Beverly is hardly a devout Catholic; she starts out thinking of her Mary collection as nothingmore than kitsch. But by effectively making a shrine of her home, she has invited the Virgin Mary in."--Jacket.
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- ""When Beverly Donofrio enters her fortieth year, she begins a love affair with the Virgin Mary. Suffering over a grown son she's neglected and unsure of where her life is really headed, she feels she's entered her own version of Dante's dark wood. So she begins to meditate and to collect Virgin Marys at yard sales. Beverly is hardly a devout Catholic; she starts out thinking of her Mary collection as nothingmore than kitsch. But by effectively making a shrine of her home, she has invited the Virgin Mary in."--Jacket."@en
- ""When Beverly Donofrio enters her fortieth year, she begins a love affair with the Virgin Mary. Suffering over a grown son she's neglected and unsure of where her life is really headed, she feels she's entered her own version of Dante's dark wood. So she begins to meditate and to collect Virgin Marys at yard sales. Beverly is hardly a devout Catholic; she starts out thinking of her Mary collection as nothingmore than kitsch. But by effectively making a shrine of her home, she has invited the Virgin Mary in."--Jacket."
- "Donofrio, who so eloquently described her experiences as a girl coping with an unexpected pregnancy and sudden motherhood at seventeen in "Riding in Cars with Boys," now turns her attention to a midlife spiritual and emotional crises: at forty, she is suddenly captivated by the iconic image of the Virgin Mary. While she collects the kitschy image in her home, she considers a journey to find the roots of the Mary myth and her growing understanding that her son Jason hasn't really felt safe growing up with her."@en
- "Entering her fortieth year, Beverly Donofrio, a "lapsed Catholic," inexplicably begins collecting Virgin Mary memorabilia at yard sales. Her search for kitsch, however, soon becomes a spiritual quest, leading her to make a pilgrimage to the holy city of Medjugorje. There, she learns that Mary comes into your life only when pride steps out and receives a bonus: hope. In Looking for Mary, Donofrio offers the universal story about a woman who-in a quest for the Blessed Mother-finds herself."@en
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