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encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco

transforming everyone in their path into uncontrollable killing machines

Knowing an ambulance would take too long to reach them

Ryan still looks for a way to see the bright side of things

Godstruck: Seven Women's Unexpected Journeys to Religious Conversion PB_Gift_Guide encounters bears at Yellowstone andOsgoods reporting takes us down the winding back roads of belief . . . [her] subjects find their way to Mormonism, evangelical Christianity, Islam, Quakerism; one of them becomes a Catholic nun. Like Osgood, they are earnest, funny, and articulate. The New Yorker A lyrical, philosophically astute account . . . Godstruck is an affirming [tale] about the value of understanding ourselves as part of a wider community of seekers: a community that, in