Books written by Nora Gallagher

Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace

As I pulled into the parking lot at St. Columba's, next to Al Smith's old black Honda, I noticed that there were no lights on in the parish hall. I got out of the car and began walking uncertainly toward the church when a little girl ...
Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith

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Simple Pleasures: Wonderful & Wild Things to Do at Home

The best book on it is called How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself by Robert Paul Smith ( New York : W. W. Norton , 1958 ) . Use a knife that already has a pretty dull blade because throwing it into the ground will make ...
The Sacred Meal: The Ancient Practices Series

At the Sukkot ritual, we ate ritual foods and shook the branches of ritual plants: willow, myrtle, date palm, and a citron fruit. A fruit in season. In our McDonald's lives, when food can be had anywhere, this celebration brought to me ...
Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith

Whether writing about her brother's battle against cancer, talking to homeless men about the World Series, or questioning the afterlife ("One world at a time"), Gallagher draws us into a world of journeys and mysteries, yet grounded in a ...
Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic

The author of Changing Light presents a lyrical and honest portrait of illness and its impact that describes the discovery of a serious health problem that threatened her sight, the ways in which her regard for friends and doctors changed ...
Patagonia: Notes from the Field

Presents a collection of essays and photographs offering insights into outdoor sports and one's relationship with the natural world
Accompany Me: A Life in Vulnerability and Faith

In her deeply affecting and profound portrait of illness and how it can dramatically alter the fabric of our lives and our faith, Nora Gallagher depicts the process of alienation she experienced when she encountered her first major crisis ...
Parlor Games

Parlor Games
Changing Light

Nora Gallagher’s elegant debut novel is a love story set in Los Alamos in 1945, in the shadow of the creation of the first atomic bomb.During the last summer of World War II, in the beautiful high desert of New Mexico, a young painter, ...