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Author Rakow, Mary, author.

Title This is why I came : a novel / Mary Rakow.

Publication Info. Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, [2015]

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 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Fiction  FIC-RAK    Check Shelf
Description x, 192 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary A woman sits in prayerful meditation, waiting to offer her first confession in more than thirty years. She holds a small book on her lap, one that she's made, and tells herself again the Bible stories it contains, the ones she has written anew, for herself, each story told aslant, from Jonah to Jesus, Moses to Mary Magdalen. Woven together and stitched by hand, they provide a new version, virtually a new translation, of the heart of this ancient and sacred text. Rakow's Bernadette traces, through each brief and familiar story, a line where belief and disbelief touch, the line that has been her home, ragged and neglected, that hidden seam.
Subject Women authors -- Fiction.
Women authors. (OCoLC)fst01177198
Genre/Form Bible fiction.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
ISBN 9781619025752 hardcover
1619025752 hardcover
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