The Beauty of Ordinary Things

Back from a tour of duty in Vietnam, Benny Finn strives to find his bearings amid the everyday life of 1973 New England. At a Benedictine Abbey in rural New Hampshire, Sister Clare, a young novice, confronts the day-to-day realities of a cloistered existence. Linking the stories of Benny and Sister Clare is Isabel Howell, a college student soon to discover that she must chart the course of her own life in a way she could not have imagined. Deeply felt and often luminously moving, this powerful story reveals a writer richly aware of the range of human tragedy and tenderness.

Author: Harriet Scott Chessman
Publisher: Atelier26
Published: 11/12/2013
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9780989302319

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 11/30/2013

About the Author
Harriet Scott Chessman is a teacher and a librettist. Her fiction has been translated into ten languages, and has been featured in publications such as" The Christian Science Monitor," " The New York Times," and "The San Francisco Chronicle." She is the author of" ""Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper," "Ohio Angels," and "Someone Not Really Her Mother." She lives in Branford, Connecticut.

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