Kerry egan: fumbling

Kerry egan: fumbling
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egan was a 24-year-old harvard divinity school student when her diabetic father died. A year later, she and her fiance set out on a 400-mile journey from the pyrenees in southern france through the valleys of navarra and westward along the camino de santiago in northern spain to the cathedral of santiago de compostela, where the remains of saint james are supposedly buried. She gives a brief history of the medieval route over the centuries and writes vividly of her own journey--walking through towns, wheat fields, vineyards, and olive tree orchards, along muddy roads filled with giant black slugs, and running out of water in the scorching 110-degree heat. "while i adored him, he was not always kind to us, his children," she writes of her father. Walking many hours each day, egan began to understand the concept of grief and the presence of god while overcoming her sadness and anger. The book is a compassionate and unforgettable testimony of her pilgrimage