
Among them are a Muslim woman hiding from death threats by the Iraqi government, a free-spirited artist, and a woman who took a vow of silence after her son was killed. Angeline, who hopes her monastic life will atone for the guilt she harbors over an accident that killed her parents, younger brother, and unborn child, struggles to fit in with the motley group. There, the radical sisters run their own services in defiance of the local parish. In 2015, after 24-year-old Sister Angeline’s cloistered Chicago convent shuts down, she finds a place at the Light of the Sea, on an island off the coast of Washington State. Quinn follows up The Night Child with a melodramatic account of a miracle-worker nun who must adjust to a new convent.
