Darling : a spiritual autobiography
(Book)

Richard Rodriguez considers religious violence worldwide, growing public atheism in the West, and his own mortality. Rodriguez's new memoir -- the first book in a decade from the Pulitzer Prize finalist -- moves from Jerusalem to Silicon Valley, from Moses to Liberace, from Lance Armstrong to Mother Teresa. Rodriguez is a homosexual who writes with love of the religions of the desert that exclude him. He is a passionate, unorthodox Christian who is always mindful of his relationship to Judaism and Islam because of a shared belief in the God who revealed himself within an ecology of emptiness. And at the center of this book is a consideration of women-- their importance to Rodriguez's spiritual formation and their centrality to the future of the desert religions.