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Where is it written that literary women must move to coastalCalifornia (if they don't already live there), become Episcopaliansand write conversion memoirs? Miles, like recent memoirists DianaButler Bass, Nora Gallagher and Lindsey Crittenden, loves Jesus anddetests the religious right, though she is also critical of "thesappy, Jesus-and-cookies tone of mild-mannered liberalChristianity." Mild-mannered she is not. Converted at age 46 whenshe impulsively walked into a church and received communion for thefirst time, the former war correspondent suddenly understood herlife's mission: to feed the hungry. What her parish needed, shedecided, was a food pantry—and within a year (and over oppositionfrom some fellow parishioners) she had started one that offeredfree cereal, fruit and vegetables to hundreds of San Francisco'sindigent every Friday. Not willing to turn anyone away, she raisedfunds and helped set up other food pantries in impoverished areas,occasionally "crossing the line from self-righteous do-gooder

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Sara Miles 著 /2008-02-01 /Random House US