Lady Saints
Journal Title: Religions - Year 2013, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
A meditation on the death of the author’s Sicilian grandmother that explores how a child copes with loss by transforming the grandmother’s vast collection of plastic and porcelain female saints into imaginary friends.
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Rita Ciresi
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