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A New York Times bestseller for 23 weeksA New York Times Notable Book of the Year"A strange and beautiful book...Part memoir, part meditation, it is a remarkable piece of writing." -The Boston Globe"The Cloister Walk is a new opportunity to discover a remarkable writer with a huge, wise heart...Norris resonates deeply for a lot of people: She's one of those writers who demands to be handed around. You want to share this great discovery, giving her work as a gift3/4or you simply shove a copy in the face of a friend, saying 'Read this.'" -Minneapolis Star-Tribune
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Based around the author's time spent as an oblate at a Benedictine monastery, this book took me a while to finish. Its (mostly) short chapters each explore different ideas and how monastic life might give people a different view of them than non-monastics. I found myself underlining something on almost every page. Not a book you're going to tear through in one sitting, but more like something you need to sit with.
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