This is a book about a woman who has an adulterous affair with a Monk because she is bored with her life. This is a typical midlife crisis story, only it has a woman as the one that gets itchy feet and not the man. There are a number of other things going on in the story, our hero’s mother cuts off her finger. Her father died a tragic death in her childhood that she has always blamed herself for. There is this mysterious bond between the older women of her life and this strange monastery that makes a living…