She Blooms: Finding Home After the Convent, a Memoir

From the safety of a convent into a world of danger . . . Maura Doherty learned the true meaning of compassion and how to find her real home.

Maura Doherty was raised in the 1950s and 60s, one of seven siblings in the Bronx, New York. Her Irish-Catholic parents owned a duplex on a street teeming with kids who played games surrounded by the roar of the Cross-Bronx Expressway. The Doherty children went to parochial schools and attended Mass on Sunday. Over time, Maura became fascinated with Ca...