Winter 2006

Mission of Mercy

by C. M. Mayo

THE PRISON ANGEL:
Mother Antonia’s Journey From
Beverly Hills
to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail.
By Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan.
Penguin. 237 pp. $24.95

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C. M. Mayo is the author of Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles Through Baja California, the Other Mexico (2002), and the editor of Mexico: A Traveler’s Literary Companion (2005).
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