Maggie Stiefvater
photo: Stephen Voss
I was raised by librarians and nuns. Only until the sixth grade, when I was homeschooled instead, but still, it was long enough to install the whispers of saints and sins and overdue fines in one’s ears for life. One nun, Sister Rose, left more of an impression than most. She ruled third grade math with Old Testament steel, and often she would march out into the hall with an unruly student and a ruler. A few minutes later, the student would return, wiping tears, and Sister Rose would ascend smoothly to her throne. One day, I was that student. The moment the classroom door was closed, Sister Rose pocketed her threatening ruler and told me, “Now you start crying and get back in there.” I learned an important lesson then: nuns are compassionate—also, nuns are liars.
Fast forward two decades: I was doing a signing for Shiver at my childhood library only a few miles from that old Catholic school. Who do I see coming through my long line but the diminutive, ancient form of Sister Rose? I don’t know how she found me—my first name is different, my last name is different, and I’ve moved 18 times since that school. Nonetheless, there she was.
“We’re proud of you,” she told me, and I didn’t know if we meant the other nuns and her, or God and her, but either way, I was back out in that hallway again, and I was learning something else about nuns: they are compassionate, they are liars, they read books about werewolves, and they would like you to sign it to “Sister Rose,” please.
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