Of Human Clay: the making and breaking of a nun

With humor and discernment, Wise invites the reader into her Irish Catholic childhood, reveals candid insights into her life as a young nun, and her unique experiences in Africa as a medical missionary—a vocation that had come to define her. Over the course of seventeen months in 1970s rural Malawi, the steady accumulation of unrelenting conflicts—a clash of world views, a patriarchal church, and a sensual but innocent first love—all propel Sister Aimee through a cascade of crises and losses she could never have anticipated.