Big Andrew's Daughter by Sister Germaine Chrupalo, OSB
Reviewed by Bonnie Loehr 

Have you ever wondered what life was like in a prairie farming community in the 1930’s and 1940’s? Have you ever experienced life in the North West Territories? Do you know what goes through the mind of a woman as she makes the decision to become a “Sister”? You can live through all these things if you read Sister Germaine’s new book: Big Andrew’s Daughter.

Recently, I picked it up to read and didn’t put it down until I finished. It is just like listening to Germaine talk as it flows from one period of her life to another.

As Germaine symbolically leafs through her photograph album, she discusses the close family ties she had and still has. She explains her thoughts through the times when she entered the Benedictine Monastery in Manitoba. She tells about her nursing career, and her time in the north. Then she explains her move to the Benedictine Community in Nanaimo where her “daily commitment is to keep the flame of (her) faith in God through prayer, and in community, burning brightly as (she) grows older gracefully and spiritually.”

 Big Andrew's Daughter