AuthorsLive@GreenwichLibrary presents Patricia Walsh Chadwick, author of Little Sister: A Memoir, on Monday, May 6 at 7 p.m. in the Meeting Room.
Imagine an 18-year-old American girl who has never read a newspaper, watched television, or made a phone call. An 18-year-old girl who has never danced – and this in the 1960s.
It is in Cambridge, Mass. where Leonard Feeney, a controversial (soon to be excommunicated) Catholic priest, has founded a religious community called the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The Center’s members—many of them educated at Harvard and Radcliffe—surrender all earthly possessions and aspects of their life, including their children, to him. Chadwick was one of those children, and Little Sister is her account of growing up in the Feeney sect.
Separated from her parents and forbidden to speak to them, Chadwick bristles against the community’s draconian rules, yearning for another life. When, at 17, she is banished from the Center, her home, she faces the world alone, without skills, family, or money but empowered with faith and a fierce determination to succeed on her own, which she does, rising eventually to the upper echelons of the world of finance and investing.
This event is open to all at no charge. Registration, using the Library’s online calendar, is highly recommended. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event through Diane’s Books. For more information, please visit greenwichlibrary.org/authorslive
