How Dante Can Save Your Life

The opening lines of  The Divine Comedy  by Dante Alighieri launched Rod Dreher on a journey that rescued him from exile and saved his life. Dreher found that the medieval poem offered him a surprisingly practical way of solving modern problems. Following the death of his little sister and the publication of his  New York Times  bestselling memoir  The Little Way of Ruthie Leming , Dreher found himself living in the small community of Starhill, Louisiana where he grew up