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The Spiral Staircase

Name: The Spiral Staircase
Author: Karen Armstrong

by Karen Armstrong

Biography & Memoir

2004

The author relates her decision to leave her convent after failing to find religious fulfillment, her struggles with depression and epilepsy, her realization of her calling, and her career working with sacred texts.

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