Written between 1946 and 1947, while O'Connor was a student far from home at the University of Iowa, this spiritual journal was only recently discovered. It provides a rare portal into the interior life of a great writer, and is a record of a young woman's cry from the heart for love, grace, and art.

"Our Father explores the meaning behind each line of the Lord's Prayer."--

Born in a rural Mexico region where girls are disguised as boys to avoid the attentions of traffickers, Ladydi dreams of a better life before moving to Mexico City, where she falls in love and ends up in a prison with other women who share her experiences.

"We pray because we are human, not because we are religious. Within the pages of this book you will find memorable language and evocative imagery for the basic human, spiritual, and beautiful need to pray. Religious tradition can, and often does, provide language, shape and space for prayer, but the primal instinct to pray does not emanate from, or begin with, religion. Instead, something in our nature points beyond itself; something in us searches...