WINNER AMELIA ISLAND BOOK FESTIVAL LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION 2018
NOMINATED FOR CITY NEWSPAPER’S BEST OF ROCHESTER 2017
Elizabeth Osta
Elizabeth Osta was born in Buffalo, New York, raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nazareth College of Rochester. She was a nun with the Sisters of Saint Joseph for nine years spanning the 1960s to the 1970s. She taught children with special needs, was a school principal and became a training specialist from New York State Education Department. She is the author of historical novel JEREMIAH'S HUNGER. She lives on the Erie Canal in Fairport, New York.
“A provocative, profound, and moving account of a modern spiritual life.”
Journey back to the 1960s and 1970s with author Elizabeth Osta as she recalls in clear detail a lived experiment in activism, spirituality, education, Catholicism, the meaning of vows, and the dreams and sometimes harsh realities of following a calling. Elizabeth Osta came of age as a nun, teacher, and activist with the Sisters of St. Joseph in Rochester, New York during Vatican II’s aggiornamento, or the bringing up to date of the Catholic Church. But would Catholicism’s new open-minded perspectives be enough to satisfy her intuition that something else, just as sacred, might be waiting for her outside the convent walls?
