Blessings and Courses

By Judy Kelly

Description:

Olivia Douglass is undecided about becoming a priest even after she has completed seminary. She is adopted and for most of her life she has had a curse over her. In order to help her find out whether she is led to the priesthood, her parish priest gives her an assignment - to pray with an inmate on death row. The relationship with the inmate makes her curious about her own life before she was adopted. Before he is executed, the inmate asks for Olivia's help and in honoring his personal request, she discovers something in her past that threatens to uproot her life with her adopted family and causes her to struggle to hold on to her persona and position.

Book Takeaway:

I wrote this book so that my high school students who came from other countries, could see that they should not give up. Even though they were suffering hardships in this country they did not anticipate, they should not succumb to the labels others put on them. With God's help, they are the only ones who can say who they are and what they can do.

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Why the author wrote this book:

I wrote this book so that my high school students who came from other countries, could see that they should not give up. Even though they were suffering hardships in this country they did not anticipate, they should not succumb to the labels others put on them. With God's help, they are the only ones who can say who they are and what they can do.