It's absolutely unlike anything I've ever read before.
Very rarely to I set aside the shortlist of books I'd planned to read next so that I can read that one right away. But very rarely do I hear about a book and then immediately open Amazon and order that book. If not, maybe I'll pick them up in a bookstore next time I'm there. It's common for me to hear about books I want to read. I am just loved by the man He does not regret.” Naamah is a parable for our time: a provocative fable of body, spirit, and resilience.Īuthor: Sarah Blake | Publisher: Riverhead
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. 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. 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. We know the story of Noah, moved by divine vision to launch their escape. 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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