The other students resent the carpenter, however, as they await the appearance of a staircase through a miracle of St.
Lizzy convinces the Bishop to hire the carpenter to build a badly needed staircase for the new choir loft. The girls ostracize her, so she finds friendship with an odd assortment of people, including a homeless, old carpenter in need of food and shelter. While many of the girls seek visions of the Virgin Mary, Lizzy is a nonbeliever and without affectation. With a healthy sense of irony, Lizzy often finds the convent ways absurd.
After the untimely death of her mother, Lizzy’s father leaves her in Santa Fe at a convent school. Set in 1878, Rinaldi’s latest work of historical fiction is at once enlightening and highly engrossing.
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