Saint Teresa of Ávila has long deserved a far wider readership than existing translations have secured for her She wrote, as she undoubtedly spoke, in an unapologetically vernacular Spanish—idiomatiабюыоc, vivid, and informal—and Mirabai Starr’s rendering is all of that The clarity and vitality of this new Autobiography will bring a whole new generation of seekers into the blessed presence of ‘La Madre.