THE BOOK OF LONGING
Sue Monk Kidd’s fourth work of fiction, “The Book of Longings,” tells the story of Ana, a rebellious and ambitious young woman from a wealthy family in Galilee. Ana’s encounter with eighteen-year-old Jesus changes everything and their marriage evolves with love and conflict in Nazareth. Ana’s pent-up longings intensify amid the turbulent resistance to Rome’s occupation of Israel, partially led by her brother, Judas. She flees to Alexandria where she determines her fate during a stunning convergence of events. “The Book of Longings” is a triumph of storytelling grounded in meticulous research and a reverential approach to Jesus’s life, focusing on his humanity.
WILD LIFE: DISPATCHES FROM A CHILDHOOD OF BABOONS AND BUTTON-DOWNS
Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Philadelphia private school. In Africa, she slept in a tent, cooked over a campfire, and lived each day alongside the baboon colony her parents were studying. She could wield a spear as easily as a pencil, and it wasn’t unusual to be chased by lions or elephants on any given day. But for the months of the year when her family lived in the United States, this brave kid from the bush was cowed by the far more treacherous landscape of the preppy, private school social hierarchy.
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