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Chasing Grace: A Novel of Odd Redemption
Chasing Grace: A Novel of Odd Redemption
Chasing Grace: A Novel of Odd Redemption
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Chasing Grace: A Novel of Odd Redemption

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Cathy Callahan runs away at age ten to escape her mother’s abuse and find God, whom she first met in a Chicago public park when she was six. The next thirty years are a series of funny, brutal, and uplifting adventures that pit her humor and strength against the rage and confusion that make her reckless, desperate, and blind to gray areas.

Cathy searches for love, healing, and wholeness in all the wrong places from Chicago’s North Side to Montana, to Reno, to San Francisco. In the Catholic Church’s byzantine system of salvation and ruler-wielding nuns. In a bakery/brothel run by Mollie, the brassy older woman who “adopts” her. With a good-looking, half-naked guru hawking “I AM Oneness.” With Spirit in the High Rockies and marriage to a sexy, dangerous cowboy. In too much Scotch. She finally stops running and retraces her steps to Chicago, where she faces her demons and finds unexpected grace in the last place she thinks to look.

Chasing Grace is a raw, humorous look at spiritual coming of age, at unconventional ways to heal deep emotional wounds, and at finding greater purpose in surprising places despite desperate odds.

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Release dateAug 31, 2011
ISBN9780983683728
Chasing Grace: A Novel of Odd Redemption
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Carol Costello

Carol Costello has made her living as a freelance writer for forty years. She has worked as an investigative reporter in Chicago, a freelance acquisitions and developmental editor, a ghostwriter or book doctor of some 30 books (including two national best sellers), and has published under her own name The Soul of Selling and Chasing Grace: A Novel of Odd Redemption.CHASING GRACE follows ten year old runaway Cathy Callahan's quest for healing and the divine over thirty years of her life. It is a raw, humorous look at spiritual coming of age, at unconventional ways to heal deep emotional wounds, and at finding grace and greater purpose in surprising places despite desperate odds.Carol developed the Soul of Selling sales method to bring more ease, meaning, and enjoyment to the extraordinary results she produced as Sales Director for three vital start-up companies over her 30-year career.Her message is that you can get exactly the results you want, and at the same time honor, respect, and appreciate everyone with whom you speak. You can sell with a higher purpose, based on your own personal values—and still get the numbers you need to succeed. She focuses on the honor and joy of selling, and on how to have fun and make money while becoming the person you've always wanted to be. www.soulofselling.com.Carol is a student of meditation and the Vedanta, and a hiker. She lives across the street from the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco and speaks around the country on selling as service, creativity, and self publishing. M.A. University of Michigan.

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