Naamah is a parable for our time: a provocative fable of body, spirit, and resilience. Children of Chicago by Cynthia Pelayo (edit: comes out Feb 9) Bonus: Some books from my TBR by nonbinary authors (not women, but if youre looking for. Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica. In fresh and modern language, Blake revisits the story of the Ark that rescued life on earth, and rediscovers the agonizing burdens endured by the woman at the heart of the story. The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson. We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions - starting at 3.25. Here is the woman tormented by dreams and questions of her own-questions of service and self-determination, of history and memory, of the kindness or cruelty of fate. Buy Naamah: A Novel by Sarah Blake online at Alibris. Here is the woman escaping into the unreceded waters, where a seductive angel tempts her to join a strange and haunted world. Here is the woman torn between faith and fury, lending her strength to her sons and their wives, caring for an unruly menagerie of restless creatures, silently mourning the lover she left behind. Now, in a work of astounding invention, acclaimed writer Sarah Blake reclaims the story of his wife, Naamah, the matriarch who kept them alive. The novel picks up six months after the flood, leaving Naamah’s family and the animals on their ark (which God instructed Noah to build) as the only survivors. We know the story of Noah, moved by divine vision to launch their escape. A wildly imaginative novel of the reluctant heroine who rescued life on earth.With the coming of the Great Flood-the mother of all disasters-only one family was spared, drifting on an endless sea, waiting for the waters to subside.
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