Part record of poet Kathleen Norris's time among the Benedictines, part meditation on various aspects of monastic life, "The Cloister Walk" demonstrates, from the perspective someone who is both an insider and an outsider, how immersion in the cloistered world - its liturgy, its ritual, its sense of community - can impart meaning to everyday events and deepen our secular lives. A New York Times Bestseller and Notable Book of the Year.