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A best-selling memoirist bravely explains to the storyline of the night evil paid her a visit - and how prayer chased evil away Beverly Donofrio possessed already lived two lives, first as a scrappy young mom on the roads of the East Town and later as the best-selling author of Riding in Cars with Kids. By enough time she reached her 50s, she thought she possessed seen it all. Now, even though she was moving into a captivating, picturesque Mexican town, where she employed yoga exercises, drank margaritas in her yard, and required salsa lessons, she experienced lost and was looking for monasteries to go to. The spiritual practice that possessed nourished her for quite some time possessed faded. She overlooked God. Then one nights she woke to find a rapist holding a knife to her neck. So begins the memoir that graphs Donofrio's trip - a long and twisting road through denial, mourning, anger, vulnerability, and retreat at five very different monasteries. Informed through Donofrio's brutally honest, often ribald, psychologically unsparing speech, Astonished is a sensitive and hopeful narrative of healing and understanding how to love life again.