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The title essay in this collection, ""Pilgrim Interrupted,"" is set on the island of Patmos, Greece, during one of Susan's pilgrimages with her husband, Father Basil Cushman, an Orthodox priest. Pilgrimages. Orthodoxy. Icons. Monasteries. It's all in here. But so are stories about mental health, caregiving, death, family, and writing, including a section on ""place,"" a key element in Southern literature. And how is Susan's pilgrimage ""interrupted""? By life itself. Pilgrim Interrupted is a collection of 35 essays, 3 poems, and 5 excerpts from Susan's novels and short stories. Coming of age during the turbulent 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi; marrying young and adopting three children; leaving the Presbyterian Church of her childhood for the Eastern Orthodox Christian faith in 1987; Susan finally began to chronicle her journey in the early 2000s. Pilgrim Interrupted is her eighth book.

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What a wonderful collection! Susan Cushman shares her pilgrimage with us, the insights of a journey that reveal the goal she seeks, which is the true journey of us all, as soon as we leave off being tourists. -Father Stephen Freeman, author of Everywhere Present: Christianity in a One-Storey Universe, popular speaker, blogger, and podcaster With crisp prose and vivid descriptions, Susan Cushman's PILGRIM INTERRUPTED delves deeply and unflinchingly into her dogged pursuit of holiness despite being hindered by her own need for healing and redemption. Readers of Madeleine L'Engle's non-fiction such as A Circle of Quiet will love this work. -Jolina Petersheim, bestselling author of How the Light Gets In Many pilgrims along the way will find in Susan Cushman a very helpful guide for this journey that never ends. -Scott Cairns, author of Slow Pilgrim: The Collected Poems, Short Trip to the Edge: A Pilgrimage to Prayer, and Anaphora In this powerful collection, Susan Cushman pulls back the curtain on her most intimate thoughts as she grapples with what it means to be human. From spirituality to trauma, from southern culture to racism, from identity to self-worth, from love to loss. She offers readers an opportunity to see the world through her lens, delivering an authentic, soul-shaping body of work. -Julie Cantrell, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Perennials Readers of Brene Brown, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Mary Karr will find solace here, as Cushman encourages us to open ourselves to understanding our own stories, and to live fully into our own becoming. -Jennifer Horne, editor of All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality and Circling Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality and former Poet Laureate of Alabama At the core of Susan's being is a longing for the Divine. Without pretense or false promises she invites the reader to join her on the path toward what lies at the end of this world and continues into the next. -River Jordan, The Ancient Way: Discoveries on the Path of Celtic Christianity

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