Wandering Between Two Worlds: Essays on Faith and Art

by Anita Mathias

In wide-ranging lyrical, prize-winning essays, Anita Mathias writes of her naughty Catholic childhood in Jamshedpur, India; her large, eccentric family in Mangalore, a seacoast town converted by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century; her rebellion and atheism as a teenager at St. Mary’s Convent, Nainital, her Himalayan boarding school, run by German missionary nuns; and her abrupt religious conversion after which she entered Mother Teresa’s convent in Calcutta as a novice, where she worked for two years. Later elegant essays explore the dualities of her life as a writer, mother, and Christian in the United States– torn between the call to write, her desire for a life of prayer, and the imperatives of domesticity, all the while navigating the experience of being “an alien and stranger” as an immigrant in America, yearning to set down roots…somewhere.

152 pages, Paperback

First published May 22, 2007

Reviews

[Anita Mathias · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hi, this is Anita, and these are some of my favourite essays of those I have written... wandering between two worlds, East and West, Domesticity and Writing, Writing and Prayer, the world of the mind and spirit, and the very practical world of being a wife and mother, running a home. I hope you like them.

[Bookman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautifully written and interesting. There is a unique peice about being a novice in Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity.