Best Of: The Life Of A Nun / A Foster Parent On Loving & Letting Go

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🗓️ 23 March 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Catherine Coldstream spoke with Terry Gross about her years as nun in a Carmelite monastery. She talks about what drew her to the vocation, what it was like to live a silent and obedient life, and why she ran away. Her memoir is called Cloistered.

Maureen Corrigan reviews Percival Everett's new novel, James. It's a reimagining of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

When Mark Daley and his husband became foster parents to two brothers, they fell in love with the children right away. But they also knew that their family could change at any moment. Eventually, the boys were reunified with their biological parents. Daley's memoir is Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family.

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0:25.2	From W.H Y Y in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend.
0:30.6	Today, poverty chastity, obedience, and rebellion.
0:34.7	We talk with Catherine Coldstream about her years as a nun in a cloistered Carmelite monastery,
0:40.4	the beauty of the silence and prayer, and the loneliness when her idealism and intellectualism were frowned on.
0:47.0	After 10 years she ran away. She's written a memoir.
0:51.0	Also we hear from Mark Daly, He and his husband wanted children. Their choices were
0:55.8	surrogacy, private adoption, which can take years, or becoming foster parents. They
1:01.4	decided to foster. He's written a memoir about fostering
1:04.8	two young children who suffered trauma. And Maureen Carrigan reviews
1:08.9	Percival Everett's new novel, James. It's a reimagining of Mark Twain's The Adventures of
1:14.4	Huckleberry Finn. Everett's 2001 novel Erasure was adapted into the recent film
1:19.9	American fiction.
1:27.0	That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.
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