Changing Habits
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Enjoy again a tale of friendship, faith and finding your destiny in this classic women’s fiction novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.
They were sisters once. In a more innocent time, three girls enter the convent. Angelina, Kathleen and Joanna come from very different backgrounds, but they have one thing in common—the desire to join a religious order and serve as best they can.Despite the seclusion of the convent house in Minneapolis, they’re not immune to the turbulent change happening around them, and each sister faces an unexpected crisis of faith. Ultimately Angie, Kathleen and Joanna all decide to leave the sisterhood, abandoning the convent to find their true place in the exciting and confusing world outside. The world of choices to be made, of risks to be taken. Of men and romantic love. The world of ordinary women…
Originally published in 2003
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Macomber (Between Friends; Navy Wife) covers familiar emotional ground in an unusual setting, giving readers a glimpse of life in a Minneapolis convent. In the early 1960s, three young women find themselves taking vows: Angelina Marcello, answering what she believes to be God's call; Kathleen O'Shaughnessy, who is following the urging of her devout parents; and Joanna Baird, who is fleeing heartbreak (her fianc arrived home from a tour in Vietnam with a pregnant Vietnamese bride a month before their planned wedding). They initially find fulfillment in service Joanna as a nurse, Angelina as a home economics teacher, Kathleen as an elementary school teacher but as the years pass, each confronts a crisis of faith that she cannot resolve within the convent walls. In the early 1970s, they return to secular life to face a society that has changed dramatically in the previous decade, particularly in relations between men and women. The premise is inventive, but the challenges the sisters face a young student's back-alley abortion, an alcoholic priest, encounters with violent and lascivious men are predictable, and Macomber gives them stock treatment. The development of the women's friendship occurs off the page, so that it seems jarring when they reminisce like soul mates at a reunion years later, with families in tow. Macomber's historical research about the Second Vatican Council and church politics is seamlessly woven into the story and adds badly needed depth to the novel. Author tour.
