Download or read book Bagels and Grits written by Jennifer Moses and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jennifer Anne Moses left behind a comfortable life in the upper echelons of East Coast Jewish society to move with her husband and children to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Searching for connection to her surroundings, she decided to volunteer at an AIDS hospice. But as she encountered a culture populated by French Catholics and Evangelical Christians, African Americans and Cajuns, altruistic nurses and nuns, ex-cons, street-walkers, impoverished AIDS patients, and healers of all stripes, she found she had embarked on an unexpected journey of profound self-discovery"--Publisher website.