The Scent of God
by: Beryl Singleton Bissell
The scent of God is a memoir of Beryl Singleton Bissell. It is a tale of a woman who love her God, family, and her man. At the age of eighteen she enters a cloistered convent because of her idea of God's love. She grew up in a family wherein her father was into alcoholism and the love that she's yearning she believes she can only get from God. At first she is blissfully happy until she has become anorectic and prey to other obsessive compulsions. After ten years in the convent she is called to Puerto Rico to help take care of her ailing father. And she met an Italian Priest, Padre Vittorio. For the following three years that she keeps coming traveling to and from the convent to her home in Puerto Rico, she struggles to reconcile human desire with spiritual longing.
The scent of God takes you a Beryl Bissell's journey of life, love, death, guilt, and redemption. Her courage to face life inspite of all the trials and even inner torment.
