Redeemed

the long version

An NPR commentator's story of an unlikely epiphany and the healing power of faith. After years of sleeping around, working as a waitress, and suffering booze-induced blackouts, Heather King settled into sobriety, marriage, and a financially lucrative but unfulfilling career in a Beverly Hills law firm. In this fervent, darkly funny tale, she describes the steps of her journey from a sexless marriage through divorce, the death of her father, and breast cancer. As someone who had reached middle age "never believing in much of anything," she found herself in the last place she thought she'd end up: the Catholic Church.--From publisher description.