Unfinished Desires
Author: Gail Godwin
Publisher: Random House
Price: $32.00 (Hardcover)
After more than 60 years teaching young girls at North Carolina private school Mount St. Gabriel’s, Mother Suzanne Rayenel has a lot of stories to fill the memoir she’s writing as Unfinished Desires unfolds. But no time sticks out more for her than 1951, when freshly orphaned Chloe Starnes arrives to the school around the same time as the young nun teacher Mother Malloy. Their presence shakes up the exclusive social circle of Tildy Stratton and everyone feels the effects. It’s not until the girls find a play written by Mother Rayenel herself that they’re able to discover themselves and each other a little bit better.
