Has anyone here read The Broken Way by Ann Voskamp? I wanted to buy it but I think she’s Protestant and discusses Communion in the book. Just want to know if it’s a good book or a poor book for Catholics.
Has anyone here read The Broken Way by Ann Voskamp? I wanted to buy it but I think she’s Protestant and discusses Communion in the book. Just want to know if it’s a good book or a poor book for Catholics.
I borrowed the book from the library a few months ago. I had to stop reading the book because it’s an intense emotional diary of her inner psychological pain and was too emotionally intense for me to handle. The book is a very subjective description of her inner life of pain and anguish – from emotional turmoil as a young woman from a dysfunctional family (her mother was mentally ill) to the present, Ann was into “cutting” herself – there’s a lot in the book about “cutting.”
Ann Voskamp is a Protestant with a deep, strong faith in Jesus which has helped her endure, survive and overcome many bad things in her life – a broken woman saved and loved by Jesus. She’s a Canadian married to a farmer and also a farmer’s daughter. Ann has several children and one of her daughters died.
The narrative of the book is not chronological and is disjointed and jumps back and forth in time. It left me wondering when something happened – past or present – why it happened, who or what she was talking about at times and whether her daughter also cut herself (she may have committed suicide - not sure). But I didn’t finish the book . . . I think I would have understood and liked the book if I knew more “objective” facts about Ann’s life.
IMO, the book would be OK for a Catholic to read – if you like this type of book – keeping in mind that Ann isn’t Catholic.
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