Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother by Kate Hennessy

Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother

Kate Hennessy

400 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir religion emotional reflective slow-paced

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"An intimate, revealing and sometimes wrenching family memoir of the journalist and social advocate who is now being considered for canonization" (The New York Times), told with illuminating detail by her granddaughter. Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was...

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Moods

informative 66%
reflective 66%
inspiring 33%
challenging 16%
dark 16%
emotional 16%
sad 16%
tense 16%

Pace

slow 83%
medium 16%

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4.07

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