I am a fan of Sue Monk Kidd's writing and certainly enjoyed this novel about the fictional wife of Jesus as much as her other books. I especially found the Author's Note at the end of the book interesting as she explains to us why she wrote the book and what she hoped to take from the experience. The quote she kept on her desk throughout the four and a half years it took her to write the book truly spoke to me as well: "Everything is the proper stuff of fiction." --Virginia Woolf. After reading this section I had a better feel for why she named it The Book of Longings. Women's voices are sometimes silenced in history. With meticulous research and written reverentially, this is an account of what might have been. Just one woman's struggle, living in a time and place and culture that would have tried to silence her. I appreciate the voice she was given.
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