Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional takes place in a convent in the Australian outback — and on an existential plane.

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“Do you have to believe in God to join a religious order?” asks the narrator of Charlotte Wood’s “Stone Yard Devotional.” The question would seem to be rhetorical, since the ...

Stone Yard Devotional, by Charlotte Wood (Riverhead). Short-listed for the Booker Prize, this quiet, probing novel follows a middle-aged woman as she moves into a cloistered religious community ...