“ The Correspondent is this year’s breakout novel no one saw coming.”. Sybil Van Antwerp has throughout her life used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has—a mother, grandmother, wife, divorcee, distinguished lawyer, she has lived a very full life.

In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, students studied and mastered this integrated view of language. Inspired by the possibility of helping students “acquire mastery over the tools of learning” Sister Miriam Joseph and other teachers at Saint Mary’s College designed and taught a course on the trivium for all first year students.