Exiles Paul Discher and deep sadness in the

and deep sadness in the course of this turbulent book

this book is sure to tickle your funny bone--and make you the life of the party

beyond the Eye

And though our life together feels perfect

all loosely organized into twelve thematic sections

Exiles Paul Discher and deep sadness in theIn December 1875 the steamship Deutschland left Bremen, Germany, bound for America. On board were five nuns, exiled by a ban on religious orders, bound to begin their lives anew in Missouri. Their journey would end when the Deutschland ran aground at the mouth of the Thames and all five drowned. Ron Hansen tells their harrowing story, but also that of the poet and seminarian Gerard Manly Hopkins, and how the shipwreck moved him to write a grand poem,