When Stephanie Saldaña arrives in Damascus, she’s twenty-seven\nyears old, brokenhearted, and running from a haunted family history\nthat she has crossed the world to escape. But in an ancient\nChristian monastery carved into the desert cliffs, she will be\nforced to confront the life she left behind. Soon she will meet a\nseries of improbable teachers: a female sheikh, an elderly\nneighbor, a wounded refugee, and Frédéric, a young French novice\nmonk who becomes her best friend. What follows is one woman’s\ntender story of falling in love: with God, with her own life, and\nwith a man she knows she can never have. Wise, funny, and\nheartbreaking, The Bread of Angels celebrates the surprising places\nwhere we can find a home, and the possibility of true love.

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