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This intimate kaleidoscopic journal takes the reader through the cycles of faith and doubt that typify the author's spiritual journey from his childhood and youth in Puerto Rico to his retirement years in the United States. Lyrical prose, poetry, and story combine to express the vagaries of a spirituality that, at one and the same time, is unable to gloss over the difficult, often heartbreaking questions of faith, and yet cannot give up on the longing for God.
“I suspect . . . that for Pedro, to write is to pray,
which is why And Yet . . . is in truth a prayer
book. This is a splendid collection, a precious gift to me as a
seeker of honesty, compassion, and sacred truth.”
—Carter Heyward, Howard Chandler Robbins Professor of Theology,
retired, Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
“The itinerary this book traces of an agnostic, zigzagging soul is
nonetheless intensely spiritual—moving, even overwhelming—in its
truthfulness. Many readers will identify with the author’s
confessions, whose Augustinian tone is readily perceived.”
—Luce López-Baralt, Distinguished Professor of Spanish and
Comparative Literatures at the University of Puerto Rico—Río
Piedras; world-renowned for her study of comparative mysticism and
of the traces of Islam in Spanish literature
“Neither lightning nor faith can be caught in a bottle. Regarding
the latter, . . . nor a creed, a vigorous moral code, a
precise ritual practice, or a particular emotive temperament. Faith
requires more dexterity, a willingness to wander, a capacity for
wonder. ‘For the world has grown full of peril,’ Galadriel said in
Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Nevertheless, ‘hope remains
while the company is true.’ Pedro Sandín-Fremaint is true
company.”
—Ken Sehested, author of In the Land of the Willing: Litanies,
Prayers, Poems, and Benedictions
Pedro A. Sandín-Fremaint is a retired professor of French at the
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, and of Spanish at
the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Earlier publications
in English and Spanish include the novel Huellas de papel
(2015) and a collection of homilies under the title The Holy
Gospel of Uncertainty (2017). He lives in Peterborough, New
Hampshire, with his wife, Annie, and their two dogs, Sally and
Molly.