A Finding Grace Sighting

A number of years ago, I donated some copies of Finding Grace and Erin's Ring to the library of the Catholic school in our old hometown.

When my husband and I were young, there were multiple parochial schools in town: the K-8 co-ed grade school attached to my parish, where I went up until high school; the K-12 co-ed school attached to his parish across town, where he went; an all-boys high school for both local and boarding students; and another K-8 school attached to a third Catholic parish. (A quick aside: we met in 9th grade at the school where he had been a student since kindergarten, and by the summer after our freshman year we were dating.) All of these schools merged into one K-12 Catholic school a long time ago.  And now, all three once-thriving parishes have merged into one as well.  

One of my husband's sisters moved back about a year ago, after years of living far from where she'd grown up; she now has two kids at the Catholic school and has taken the job of track coach.  This sister-in-law posted this picture on the Pearl sibling text stream a few days ago: 

She spied this copy of Finding Grace on a shelf in the school's library.  She said that some of the kids on the track team had told her it was good book and she should read it (not realizing that she was related to the author by marriage 🤣).

I’m humbled and amazed…there are high school students out there reading this book.  Published in 2012, it has been out of print for a while, so it wasn’t a success by the world’s standards.  But it may be doing some good yet!