Norris, Kathleen, — The Cloister Walk.

NY, Riverhead, (1997). VG PB. Why would a married woman with a thoroughly Protestant background and often more doubt than faith be drawn to the. ancient practice of monasticism, to a community of celibate men whose days are centered around a rigid schedule of prayer, work, and scrpture? Norris spent two extended residencies at St. John's Abbey in Minnesota.