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Riverhead Books
April 2019
On Sale: April 9, 2019
304 pages
ISBN: 0525536337
EAN: 9780525536338
Kindle: B07FLXBG21
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Fantasy | Fantasy Historical
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. We know the
story of Noah, moved by divine vision to launch their
escape. Now, in a work of astounding invention, acclaimed
writer Sarah Blake reclaims the story of his wife, Naamah,
the matriarch who kept them alive. 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. 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 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. 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. Naamah is a parable for our time: a
provocative fable of body, spirit, and resilience.
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