num_pages: 304
description: Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong’s memoir of life inside a Catholic convent in the 1960’s.With gentleness and honesty, Armstrong takes her readers on a revelatory journey that begins with her decision, at the age of seventeen, to devote her life to God as a nun. yet once she embarked upon her spiritual training, she encountered a frightening and oppressive world, fossilized by tradition, which moulded, isolated and pushed her to the limit of what she could endure.
language: English
title: Through the Narrow Gate : A Memoir of Convent Life
titlecomplete: Through the Narrow Gate : A Memoir of Convent Life
genres: Faith, Biography, Religion, Spirituality, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Christian, Christianity
ratings_count: 1902
publisher: Flamingo