![]() ![]() Her roommate, Elinora, is cruel in one incident, Lizzy gets a kitten, and Elinora stabs its eyes with an embroidery needle. Lizzy becomes an outsider among her class. ![]() She thinks the nuns who pray to Saint Joseph for help to finish their choir loft (which does not have a staircase) are crazy. The school is run by the Sisters of Loretto, and as a Methodist, Lizzy cannot comprehend their dedication to Catholicism and is bothered by what she sees as hypocrisy. Plot summary ฤก3-year-old Lizzy Enders's father dumps her at a Santa Fe convent after her mother died on the Santa Fe Trail. It was adapted into the 1998 television movie The Staircase starring William Petersen (as Joad), Barbara Hershey (as Mother Madalyn), and Diane Ladd (as Sister Margaret). The book is about the spiral staircase at the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, rumored to have miraculous origins. The Staircase is a historical fiction novel by Ann Rinaldi. ![]()
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