A Good Question

I went to the convent to find God. At least that's what I thought I was doing. God seemed pretty darned elusive to me at age fifteen. Nearly impossible to please too, according to the list of rules I'd been given that were supposedly from him. A demanding list of Thou Shalts and Thou Shalt Nots. If I thought I could please my parents, God was another story. What did he want from me? According to Catholic teachings, the best a girl could do when I was young was to become a nun. Okay. A tall order, but that's what I would set out to do.

The first chapters of the book begins with my leaving home.