About the Author: Peter Manseau
Peter Manseau is the author of several books including the novel Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter (Free Press, 2008) and the travelogue Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World's Holy Dead (St. Martin's Griffin, 2010). Follow him on Twitter @petermanseau.
I grew up around nuns. My mother had left the convent five years before I was born, but all through my childhood our
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