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When reporter Cheryl L. Reed set out to examine the lives of nuns, she was fulfilling a personal quest, discovering for herself what was behind the mysterious image instilled by her Protestant upbringing and reinforced by Hollywood clichés and her Catholic friends’ childhood stories of foreboding figures in black.
So, began a journalistic pursuit of an enigmatic subculture, during which Reed interviewed more than three hundred nuns. She lived and prayed with them, observed their daily lives, and participated in silent worship. She witnessed their vow ceremonies, mourned with them, celebrated and drank with them. In turn, they welcomed questions no one had ever dared ask before…
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