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Though apart for years as Mary-Margaret follows her calling and Jude follows his lusts, when she sees him again, her heart cries out at his pain. Jude has done things that horrify her, has walked a path she’d rather turn her eyes away from . . . so why is Jesus telling her to make him her life’s work? He wouldn’t seriously ask her to give up her dreams to follow Him for the sake of this broken, diseased man . . . would He? The Passion of Mary-Margaret is a book that will shake you to your core. Written as a memoir of an aging religious sister, it combines Mary-Margaret’s present story with a circuitous, shocking past. Visions of Jesus, a quest for the father that had raped her mother, trouble from the KKK . . . these elements and more weave a story that will open your eyes and burrow deep into your heart. It took me a few chapters to get into the way the story’s told, but once the present events started getting interesting, I stopped wanting to flip to the parts that were memory and read both parts with equal intrigue. I picked up this book because it’s not very often you see a book in the Christian market with Catholics—Catholic religious sisters, no less—as the main characters, and I wanted to see how Lisa Samson pulled it off. The answer? Masterfully written, fully involving, and one of the richest, most complex books I’ve ever read. It kept me up at night and redefined my thinking, but what’s more, it helped me better understand my own relationship with Christ. The Passion of Mary-Margaret is a book to be talked about, and Lisa Samson is an author to follow.
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