Blue Windows: A Christian Science Childhood

by Barbara Wilson

Publisher:

Picador

, 2024

From Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Church of Christian Science, to Deepak Chopra, Americans have struggled with the connection between health and happiness. Barbara Wilson was taught by her Christian Scientist family that there was no sickness or evil, and that by maintaining this belief she would be protected. But such beliefs were challenged when Wilson's own mother died of breast cancer after deciding not to seek medical attention, having been driven mad by the contradiction between her religion and her reality. In this perceptive and textured memoir Blue Windows, Wilson surveys the complex history of Christian Science and the role of women in religion and healing.

Product Details

• Title: Blue Windows: A Christian Science Childhood
• Author: Barbara Wilson
• Publisher: Picador
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781466888869, 9780312150662, 0312150660, 1466888865
• Resource ID: LLS:9781466888869
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-11-23T08:46:58Z

About Barbara Wilson

Barbara Wilson is the pen name under which Barbara Sjoholm has published the Cassandra Reilly Mysteries and the Pam Nilsen Mysteries. Gaudí Afternoon, of the Cassandra Reilly series, won a Lambda Literary Award and a Crime Writers’ Association Award, and was made into a film by the same name. Like her detective Cassandra Reilly, Sjoholm is a translator, but of Norwegian and Danish books. In addition to her fiction and the memoir Blue Windows, Sjoholm is the author of the travel books The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O’Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea, Incognito Street, and The Palace of the Snow Queen. Her essays have appeared in theAmerican Scholar, Harvard Review, the New York Times, Smithsonian, and Slate, among other publications.

For more about Barbara Sjoholm, please visit www.barbarasjoholm.com.