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An extraordinary memoir of loss, spiritual struggle, illumination and insight-emotionally heartrending, intellectually exciting, a model of what a memoir should be. -- Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times bestselling author

Pagels treats readers to the examined life behind her intellectual feats with extreme grace and depth. This luminous memoir strips religion to its elementary particles: love, suffering, and mystery. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) An extraordinary memoir of loss, spiritual struggle, illumination and insight-emotionally heartrending, intellectually exciting, a model of what a memoir should be. -- Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times bestselling author

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Elaine Pagels taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she chaired the department of religion. She is now the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author of several books on religious subjects and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981. Eunice Wong is a classically trained actor who works extensively in professional theaters across the United States and in New York City, as well as having appeared on HBO, NBC, ABC, Comedy Central, and in various independent films. Eunice is a graduate of the Juilliard School Drama Division Actor Training Program and has also studied piano and singing at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto. A first-generation Chinese Canadian, born in Toronto to Eric and Eleanor Wong, who immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong, Eunice grew up with her brother Eugene in Toronto and thanks her family for their constant love and support.

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