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Book review: The Book of Longings — by Sue Monk Kidd

April 30, 2020

(Viking) Sue Monk Kidd, author of the beloved “Secret Life of Bees,” vividly portrays Ana, as the imagined wife of Jesus, in her new richly textured, historically accurate and deeply engrossing novel. Ana, born in Sepphoris as the daughter of the chief scribe to the leader of Galilee, Herod Antipa, is an educated woman, whose inner longings are not to be a wife, mother, or helpmeet, but rather to be a scribe, to be a writer of her own stories and the stories of women who came before her and after her, to be … (read more)

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