New York: Random House, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Sister Helen PrejeanÕs work as an activist nun, campaigning to educate Americans about the inhumanity of the death penalty, is known to millions as the author of the best selling 'Dead Man Walking,' basis of the Oscar winning film. This book describes her spiritual journey from praying for God to solve the worldÕs problems to engaging full-tilt in working to transform societal injustices. She grew up in a well-off Baton Rouge family, one that still employed black servants, and joined the Sisters of St. Joseph at the age of eighteen. She was in her forties when she had an awakening that her lifeÕs work was to immerse herself in the struggle of poor people forced to live on the margins of society. SIGNED on the title page and uncommon thus. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-1400067305.