Gus: A Nuns Story
by Patricia Nolan Savas
Category: Ex-nuns

What really goes on behind convent walls? Learn the secrets of life in a Catholic convent as author Patricia Nolan Savas recounts the fascinating, true story of her ten years as Sister Augusta ("GUS"), a Sister of Charity. This is a compassionate, often heartbreaking, sometimes humorous retelling of the author's search for love, acceptance & closeness with God. In vivid, spell-binding prose she recounts the petty rivalries, infighting, jealousy, sexual intrigue, trauma, & physical & mental breakdowns that resulted from women living in close quarters & striving for perfection. Eventually, everything took its toll. As she relates: "...the suffocating blackness had become quicksand & I was sinking." In desperation she left the convent a broken woman, only to come face to face with further hardships in trying to adjust to a world that was now foreign to her. But the book doesn't end there. This is a story of tenacious hope triumphing over pain, fulfilling the promise offered by Dr. Robert C. Frost in his foreword: "For those whose lives are empty, lonely & strangely sad, take courage-- for this is a true story which ends with a happy beginning."