Visible Signs, Grace Marcus
Visible Signs, Grace Marcus
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Visible Signs

Author: Grace Marcus

Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass

Unabridged: 11 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/07/2023


Synopsis

In the aftermath of the turbulent 60s, unable to reconcile her monastic existence in upstate New York with the plight of the community’s poor, Sister Jude leaves the convent only to become ensnared in her best friend’s crumbling marriage. Intimidated by her talented but overbearing husband, Vincent, a pregnant Connie shows up at Jude’s door with her two children in tow.

Jude's mission to feed the hungry and free Connie from her weakness for Vincent is complicated by her own attraction to Matt, a passionate but burned-out activist, back from the inner city to work his family’s farm.

Tormented by Vincent’s treachery and Matt’s ultimatum, Jude learns how little she understands the vagaries of the heart. And that her fierce faith and determination may not be enough to save Connie from her husband, the children from danger or herself from a fall from grace.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Celia

Visible Signs is a fantastic book. I am a Catholic and gravitate toward novels that feature Catholic Religious. Sister Jude is the main character. She takes a leave of absence from the convent to set up and run a Food Bank called Loaves and Fishes. In the secular world she is known as Rita. I especia......more

Goodreads review by Tracie

"Visible Signs" is a beautiful, lyric, and nuanced book. Set in the early 1970s, the story centers around the friendship between Rita and Connie, two girls from an Italian working class neighborhood in Brooklyn. Beautiful and big-hearted Rita struggles with her spiritual vocation. She takes a sabbat......more

Goodreads review by Juliana

I liked this novel about the difficult choices of two women, and the consequences they face for seeking independence and their own definitions of community and connection--all in the context of sweeping societal upheaval of the 70s--Women's Liberation, Vatican II, resistance to US imperialism in Vie......more