A review by bartendm
Dorothy Day; The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of Dorothy Day by Kate Hennessy

3.0

A memoir/biography of Dorothy Day written by her granddaughter. It gave a lot of insight into Dorothy Day as a person and what it would be like to grow up with someone like that in your family. Much of the life of her daughter, Tamar, is included, as might be expected. It is not a good book to learn about Dorothy Day if you know almost nothing about her as I did. It has lots of trivial details which can make for many dull sections if you are not interested in knowing every tiny thing about Dorothy. I am sure there must be many who are, but probably not the general reading public. I find it hard to believe that Dorothy Day would actually achieve saint status after reading this, as she was an admirable, but very human woman. Her daughter, Tamar, had a pretty hard life because of who Dorothy was, even though they loved each other very much. Thanks to Kate for sharing the inside view and I hope she got a lot from the experience of writing this book.