Barbara Mujica's SISTER TERESA Featured in America Magazine

Barbara Mujica's novel Sister Teresa: The Woman Who Became Spain's Most Beloved Saint gets the star treatment in America magazine, the national Catholic weekly. Reviewer Keith J. Egan calls Sister Teresa "a lively, vivid and fast-paced story that holds one's attention as it follows Teresa as a vivacious young woman, who ancestors were Jews who converted to Catholicism . . . Mujica displays an impressive knowledge of life in 16th century Spain and the book offers a vivid contact with everyday life in Spain's Golden Age." Sister Teresa is now available in paperback at bookstores everywhere.

Meet Barbara Mujica, author of SISTER TERESA, at BookPeople in Austin on Tuesday, June 3

Barbara Mujica, author of Sister Teresa and Frida, will appear at BookPeople in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, June 3, at 6:30pm. This intimate book club event will center around Mujica's critically acclaimed novel of the life of Teresa of Avila, just released in paperback from Overlook. This masterful novel reimagines the life of the 16th century mystic, reformer, author, who became Spain's most beloved saint. Barbara Mujica is a novelist, short story writer, critic, and professor of Spanish at Georgetown University.

Barbara Mujica's SISTER TERESA: A NOVEL Reviewed in The Washingtonian

Barbara Mujica's novel of the life of Saint Teresa of Avila is reviewed in the new issue of The Washingtonian magazine. Critic Emily Halonen notes that Mujica's "intimate novel about St. Teresa of Avila is as much about friendship and love as is it about faith and salvation." Since publication, this beautifully written book as received glowing reviews; Entertainment Weekly said: "Eschewing sacred sentiment for rich, gritty anecdotes, Sister Teresa, Barbara Mujica's well-researched novel reimagines famed 16th-century Teresa of Avila as a vibrant and fully fleshed woman not above vanity, deceit, and a little pre-convent hanky-panky." The new trade paperback edition of Sister Teresa: A Novel will be published in March.

Barbara Mujica reads and discusses SISTER TERESA at the National Press Club

Listen to Barbara Mujica as she discusses SISTER TERESA, her compelling novel illuminating the life of one of the most beloved and most controversial of all the saints. Told from the point of view of Saint Teresa's doting companion Sister Angelica, SISTER TERESA unveils the life of a complicated and devoted servant of the Lord. Mujica brings out the woman behind the legend capturing all the fervor of the saint herself. Recorded May 10 at the National Press Club.

SISTER TERESA gets a STARRED KIRKUS REVIEW

Bárbara Mujica's SISTER TERESA, due out from Overlook in March 2007, has gotten a starred review in Kirkus.

"A lifelong friend remembers Teresa of Àvila, "Spain's most beloved saint," in this richly entertaining historical novel from Mujica...an earthy, humanizing portrait."