by Lawrence Wright.
A longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, Wright profiles seven women facing execution in Texas and the nuns praying for their souls. The Sisters of Mary Morningstar, who live outside Waco, are solitary and mostly silent, but they provide the condemned inmates with “mercy, love, and grace,” Wright writes.
Each person is “richly observed and beautifully rendered,” The Boston Globe says, adding that it’s a “thoughtful book that will challenge readers’ assumptions about guilt, justice, and transformation.” Buy Redemption from your local bookstore.
— Kate McKenna