"A feel-good book with a warm-fuzzy ending"
Despite the omnious cover,no one gets crucified in this 'fun with nuns' tale. When two holy SIsters follow a heavenly chorus through the woods, the are led to discover a little girl playing with a bear. The Sisters devise a plan to rescue the girl, "Joy " from her new friend, and having done so, whisk her away to the nearby convent/orphanage and a doubting Mother-Superior. Of course, Sister Patrice's version differs somewhat from that of our little girl, who claims that she is from Heaven, that God is her Father, and that Jesus is her brother. Joy, accompanied by an often visable-to-her guardian angel, is subsequently examined by the Bishop, who remains unconvinced of her claims. He does discover that her heart is located in her abdomen. A birth anomally?
She is taken into the orphanage, a circa WWII era home for children. There she makes friends and experiences the oddities of life on earth, while God speaks to her through her angel, MIchael.She is later adopted, some might argue 'sold' by the Mother Superior for ten thousand dollars (because the orphanage is in financial duress), to a redeemable gangster and his gum-chewing mistress. Sister Patrice is appointed ward by Mother Superior and permitted to go along with Joy and her new parents for a trial period. They travel across the state visiting various gambling venues in the gangster's hapless attempts to bail himself out of trouble with the mob.
In the course of the tale, Joy's new father and mother achieve grace. Eventually Sister Patrice herself comes to terms with her own self-doubts concerning her vowels.
Finally,the family settles in New York City, where Joy's dream of the Great White Way comes to fruition. Years later, as recounted to Sister Patrice by a former schoolmate who had fallen in love with Joy, -- during a Broadway show, a host of angels... "Only the orchestra and those in the first rows could see, but..."
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