![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her daily swims, however, bring her in contact with the world of the dead, supernatural beings, visions of the future she’s helping to create and even God’s voice in the body of an Egyptian vulture. Naamah’s getting restless, and she designs a system that will allow her to swim in the barely receding flood waters to allay her boredom. 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. And in her debut novel, Naamah, Sarah Blake brings Noah’s titular wife to life, imagining how a woman would experience the loss and reconstruction of the world after God destroys it in an apocalyptic flood. Today, the women of the Bible are occasionally celebrated for what their perspectives can add to interpretations of Christianity. They are wives or daughters prized for their faith, brought along on men’s adventures or punished as men deserve. In many biblical stories, women live at the periphery. ![]()
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