Love & Salt: A Spiritual Friendship Shared in Letters - Softcover

Andrews, Amy; Griffith, Jessica Mesman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0829438319 ISBN 13: 9780829438314

Publisher: Loyola Press, 2013

Synopsis

       When Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith met in a creative writing class in graduate school, they both confessed to writing about God. They bonded one night while reading the Book of Ruth and came to truly understand the unlikely friendship of Ruth and Naomi. In these two Old Testament women, they witnessed a beautiful spiritual friendship and a way of walking with one another toward God.
       But how could they travel this path together when they would be separated by distance and time and leading busy lives as they established marriages and careers? They decided to write letters to each other--at first, for each day of Lent, but those days extended into years. Their letters became a memoir in real time and reveal deeply personal and profound accounts of conversion, motherhood, and crushing tragedy; through it all, their faith and friendship sustained them.
       Told through the timeless medium of letters--in prose that is raw and intimate, humorous and poetic--Love & Salt is at its core the emotional struggle of how one spiritual friendship is formed and tested in tragedy, tempered and proven in hope.

About this title

From the Author:

Love and Salt won the 2014 Christopher Award for literature that affirms the highest values of the human spirit.

About the Author:

Jessica Mesman Griffith is a widely published writer whose work has been noted in Best American Essays. She is the founder and curator of Sick Pilgrim, a spiritual community for writers and artists and those on the margins of the church. Visit the Sick Pilgrim blog at patheos.com/blogs/sickpilgrim
Amy Andrews is a recipient of the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction and teaches mathematics at Northwestern University. 

About this edition

• Publisher: Loyola Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0829438319
• ISBN 13: 9780829438314
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324