The Novelist and the Nun
PROFILE of writer and cellist Mark Salzman, 40... Tells about his new short novel, "Lying Awake", which describes the travails of a nun whose tumor is …
"Pure awareness stripped her of everything. She became an ember carried upward by the heat of an invisible flame. Higher and higher she rose, away from all she knew." From Salzman's novel about a nun's mystical crisis.