“A cause for celebration: who could have imagined that a Doctor of the Church would have been such good company, in her remaining writings, to so many? Starr’s translation is the first new translation into English for forty years and the first by a woman, and its easy fluency captures Teresa’s conversational enthusiasm most effectively.”—Library Journal (starred review)
"A fresh perspective on the mystic. . . . Crisp, contemporary language puts Teresa’s famous passion for God in stark relief."—Publishers Weekly
“Mirabai Starr’s
translation is a work for our time. She has given Teresa a presence and a voice
in a modern era. Saint Teresa no doubt chose Mirabai, for her talent with
language and Spanish translation is pure genius."—Caroline Myss, author of
Entering the Castle and Anatomy of the Spirit
“Mirabai Starr’s
translation makes totally accessible this most famous (and attractive) saint.
The writing has such a delightful sparkle you can't help falling in love with
Teresa.”—John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War
“Saint Teresa of has long deserved a far wider readership than
existing translations have secured for her. She wrote, as she undoubtedly
spoke, in an unapologetically vernacular Spanish—idiomatic, vivid, and
informal—and Mirabai Starr’s rendering is all of that. The clarity and vitality of this new Autobiographywill bring a whole new generation of
seekers into the blessed presence of ‘La Madre.’”—Carol Lee Flinders, author of
Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics and Enduring
Lives: Portraits of Women and Faith in Action
“Saints’ lives are not
always page-turners. But Mirabai Starr´s wonderfully fresh translation of the Vida
of Teresa of captures the passionate
spirituality, the talent for intimacy, the frankly fallible humanity that
attracted her contemporaries to the woman Starr describes, in her introduction,
as ‘not an obvious saint.’ Tessa Bielecki´s deeply-felt foreword is one
inducement among many to take this welcome new translation to
heart."—Cathleen Medwick, author of :
The Progress of a Soul
