Menina Walker was a child of fortune. Rescued after a hurricane in South America, doomed to a life of poverty with a swallow medal as her only legacy, the orphaned toddler was adopted by an American family and taken to a new life.As a beautiful, intelligent woman of nineteen, she is in love, engaged, and excited about the future—until another traumatic event shatters her dreams. Menina flees to … Menina flees to Spain to bury her misery in research for her college thesis about a sixteenth-century artist who signed his works with the image of a swallow—the same image as the one on Menina’s medal.
But a mugging strands Menina in a musty, isolated Spanish convent. Exploring her surroundings, she discovers the epic sagas of five orphan girls who were hidden from the Spanish Inquisition and received help escaping to the New World. Is Menina’s medal a link to them, or to her own past? Did coincidence lead her to the convent, or fate?
Both love story and historical thriller, The Sisterhood is an emotionally charged ride across continents and centuries.
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This book is really two stories: one set in the 21st century, and one in the sixteenth-century Spanish Empire. The historical narrative focuses on a reclusive convent committed to protecting women from violence. In the midst of the midst of the Inquisition, the convent, Las Golondrinas, takes in girls whose families and histories have led them …
While I do not subscribed to the universalist view that is promoted in this book, I do appreciate the respect given to the different faith views. A young girl adopted from a nunnery in Peru grows up in an evangelical home in the Southern United States. Menina travels to Spain and to unlock her mysterious past and the that of the secret book …
I liked the parts from the past. Hard to follow at times. The parts in the present were boring.
I found this book to be quite interesting. It goes from the present back to the Spanish Inquisition. I couldn’t put it down!
If anyone wants to look into the lives of women during the 1500’s this is a great place to start. It also gives one good insight into the Inquisition for those people who think Christianity is above torture and murder in the name of self righteousness religious fervor. The only reason I failed to give this book an excellent rating is because I …
One of those books that has left an deep and lasting impression on my heart. I search out “Golondrinas” and have thought of maybe getting one as a small tattoo.
I actually listened to this instead of reading and I sat for hours in my car instead of doing what I needed to do. I’ve revisited it twice, loving each bit with a new realization with …