- Book Topics
- Nuns
- Convent life
- Franciscan order
- Franciscan Sisters of Christian Love and Atonement
- Novitiate
- Postulant
- San Francisco
- Summer of Love
- Haight Ashbury District
- UCSF
California Medieval
CALIFORNIA MEDIEVAL is an intriguing hybrid memoir, interspersed with poetry, song, and lyrical vignettes. It explores the world of a Franciscan convent during the heyday of the 1960s in San Francisco at the birth of the flower-power era, as seen through the eyes of a novitiate nun, newly arrived in the Bay Area from a rural community in southwestern Washington State. This book is a stylistically and structurally adventurous narrative that forms a literary intersection of music, spirituality, nature, sociology, and sexuality. Written in an engaging, wryly humorous voice, Dugaw’s unique story of her early adulthood at a convent is sure to draw readers who are curious about her cloistered life at a time in our country’s history that was in the midst of its own spiritual and social awakening.
Links to Reviews
- Book Topics
- Nuns
- Convent life
- Franciscan order
- Franciscan Sisters of Christian Love and Atonement
- Novitiate
- Postulant
- San Francisco
- Summer of Love
- Haight Ashbury District
- UCSF
Reviews and Comments
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An intriguing hybrid memoir interweaving poetry, song, and rhapsodic vignettes about the three years in the 1960s spent as a postulant (an aspiring nun) in a cloistered Franciscan convent…rich in a countercultural atmosphere you can visualize, smell, and taste.