Vera Wright is a quirky sixty-plus beautician who is perpetually trying to improve herself. One Sunday she decides to respond to her pastor's challenge to "surrender her life to God" because, why not? At least it would make her a better person. Much to her shock, this quiet little gesture is taken seriously on the "other side", and from that moment forward she is relentlessly recruited to save the world. Vera is a most unlikely crusader, who battles this new vocation with every tool in her parlor. Chaos ensues, including mystical visions, out-of-body mayhem, bilocation, lucid dreaming, and drawers full of mysterious automatic writings. In the process of her own reluctant sanctification, she persuades her beloved church lady friends to create The Society of Loaves and Fishes, the first order of female Catholic priests. There is a new order of miracles, she tells them, that God can only perform through women. The novel explores the extraordinary potential in simple and humble people with a wink and a nod to the harrowing cost of true spiritual commitment. It is an optimistic and humorous story with serious underpinnings that will entertain and inform both saints and sinners.

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I grew up third in a chaotic Irish Catholic household including five brothers, two sisters, and parents whose thumbs were permanently stuck in a bursting dyke. The rigors of our religion counterbalanced the force of our insurrection, barely. Besides the plethora of rules and regulations, the threat of burning in hell for eternity was a nebulous, yet effective backdrop against more immediate punishments, such as standing in a corner for an hour, losing a month's allowance, or, for me, the horror of housecleaning. READ MORE

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