A review by girljames
And Then They Were Nuns by Susan J. Leonardi

5.0

The extraordinary thing about this book is how much the form reflects the content. It is not a book dominated by a single character, but by a community of characters. Their struggles are slow, reflective ones, sometimes against the landscape. The story meanders over half a century. It is a beautiful, feminist imagining of what the spiritual life could be like if it were run by a community of women who truly value and respect each other, and not a single, male authority figure.