Anna St Onge

Convent Girl Anna St Onge

This memoir tells a unique and very personal story. St. Onge lost her family as a young girl and was raised by nuns as a boarding school student in a half dozen convents. Essentially, she belonged to one convent or another until the age of nineteen, the girl living all year round with the nuns. The experience doesn't fit a widespread stereotype of convents, the unfortunate stress of institutional cruelty and abuse. The nuns did their best, but despite that, the young St. Onge often felt alone and overlooked. This isn't a formal autobiography, but a series of vignettes in which she paints, clear unvarnished pictures of convent life. These are heartfelt memories of a life unlike any other. Putting them in written form, she gives recognition and honour to the child she was, and chronicles an early life coloured by unusual circumstances. St. Onge shares all this with her readers, inviting them to join her on an amazing journey.