I was brought up Catholic under the wings of my devout grandparents and it was customary within our family for all children to have their own copy of an illustrated children’s bible. So, in the end, I decided that it would be beneficial for me to share, for the purposes of context, a few things about what I brought with me to the reading table with regards to this novel.
All I can do is educate myself as fully as possible and think, disseminate, discuss, and do it all over again, indefinitely. It is simply not possible for me to view any issue from every perspective because I haven’t lived a hundred lives. Realistically, everything I read is approached within the context of my own views I’d like to think that I am worldly enough to view an issue from all perspectives but to believe that is misguided. But a discussion on social media that I have taken part in that was sparked by a somewhat negative review, which in my opinion was not entirely reflective of the novel in its entirety, highlighted to me how many people will approach this novel, or avoid it, based on their own views about those clunky boots. I wanted to review this novel in the same manner as I would any other work of historical fiction. When I first began to think about how I was going to review this novel, I was determined to leave religion and belief in God on the doormat, tucked out of the way like a pair of clunky boots that threaten to trip people up as they walk through the door.
Taking Ana on a journey she could never have imagined, THE BOOK OF LONGINGS is a glorious evocation of a time and a place where astounding events unfolded, and of one woman’s fate when she fights to make her voice heard.
A chance encounter with the eighteen-year-old Jesus changes everything: his ideas and his passion are intoxicating. Ana is expected to marry an elderly widower to further her father’s ambitions, a prospect that horrifies her. Raised in a wealthy family in Galilee, she is sheltered from the brutality of Rome’s occupation of Israel. Ana is a rebellious young woman, a gifted writer with a curious, brilliant mind, who writes secret narratives about the neglected and silenced women around her.
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