A LIBRARIAN’S ORIENTATION
What this book explores
A collection of stories, poems, and reflections on shelter, conflict, prayer, identity, and making room for one another.
EDITORIAL NOTE
Why it’s in the Library
It gives emotional and spiritual texture to the work of making shelter for oneself and others. The book is especially valuable when explanation would be less helpful than language spacious enough to hold contradiction.
Good starting place if…
You are carrying conflict, displacement, loneliness, or questions of identity and want reflective company rather than a step-by-step program.
Know before you begin…
Ó Tuama moves through story, poetry, prayer, Irish language, and experiences of conflict in an associative way. The book's Christian and ecumenical hospitality is situated, and its literary form leaves some questions deliberately open.