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    The Passion of Mary-Margaret

    By Lisa Samson

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    Mary-Margaret has always planned to join the church as a religious sister, but falls in love with her childhood friend, Jude Keller, a ne'er-do-well with a soul needing saving.

    Born in 1930 on a beautiful island off Chesapeake Bay, Mary-Margaret Fischer knows exactly what she wants to be: a religious sister. Despite the violent circumstances of her conception and birth, she simply wants to be in love with Jesus and serve Him the rest of her life.

    When Mary-Margaret met Jude Keller, the lighthouse keeper's son, she was studying at a convent school on a small island off Chesapeake Bay. Destined for a life where she could never marry, she nevertheless felt a pull toward Jude—gorgeous, rebellious, promiscuous Jude. But Jude, driven by demons no one really understood, disappeared into Baltimore's seamy red-light district to a life working the streets. Mary-Margaret moved on with her life, preparing to serve God with her sisters as a teacher and artist.

    Then Jude comes home—but now he's bitter, dissolute, and diseased. And Mary-Margaret receives a divine call that shakes her to the core, a call to give up her dreams and marry the troubled man who befriended her so long ago. For Jesus' sake, can she forsake the only life she ever wanted for a love that could literally cost her life?

    • A beautiful novel of God’s grace in impossible circumstances
    • Book length: approximately 90,000 words
    • Includes discussion questions for book clubs
    • Also by Lisa Samson: Quaker Summer, Embrace Me, Bella, and The Sky Beneath My Feet
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateMar 9, 2009
    ISBN9781418576387
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    Lisa Samson

    An English language and literature specialist with many years’ experience of teaching English and Italian, Lisa Samson is a Senior Lecturer in Writing at Leeds Beckett University. Lisa's first novel, Talk To Me, came second in the Virginia Prize for Fiction 2011. She has been published in short form both in print and online.

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    • 5/5
      It's such a beautiful story about a girl who had plans on how to live her life but yet she followed Jesus obediently, and there were times she understood Him, and there were also times that she was confused about His plans but she followed Him obediently nevertheless. Her plans may not have matched with His plans but yet everything turned out for the best and every piece fell into the rightful place. The passion and intimacy between Mary-Margaret and Jesus was so strong and envious. It's such a stunning novel. Full of wonderful characters.
    • 3/5
      The saving grace about this book are the characters -- they are compelling, they are unique, and they have a history that seems incredibly real and tangible. The ideas the story is built around are great as well, especially the theme that what God actually asks us to do is sometimes not what we think God should be asking a nice, neat Catholic girl to do. The characters in the book all interact with their faith in very different ways, and it makes for a great tapestry in that. All that, and the setting is also done extraordinarily well -- enough so that I'd love to find out what it's based on, so that I can take a summer vacation there. :)However, the book is written in the voice of an elderly religious sister. And perhaps a bit too realistically, she tells the story the way elderly women are often wont to do -- skipping from one time period to another without warning or transition, skipping backwards and forwards throughout the story. It's realistic, but it also ultimately kept the story from being as engaging and gripping for me as I think it could have been. At the end of the day, I put up with my Grandmother's rambling story telling because I love her, but when a novel starts out like that from the get go, I just don't have that same commitment.