num_pages: 256
description: Noe says -I must build a boat.-A boat she says.-A ship more like. I'll need the boys to help he adds as an afterthought.-We're leagues from the sea she says or any river big enough to warrant a boat.This conversation is making Noe impatient. -I've no need to explain myself to you.-And when you're done she says carefully we'll be taking this ship to the sea somehow?As usual Noe's impatience fades quickly. -We'll not be going to the sea. The sea will be coming to us.In this brilliant debut novel Noah's family (or Noe as he's called here)-his wife sons and daughters-in-law-tell what it's like to live with a man touched by God while struggling against events that cannot be controlled or explained. When Noe orders his sons to build an ark he can't tell them where the wood will come from. When he sends his daughters-in-law out to gather animals he can offer no directions money or protection. And once the rain starts they all realize that the true test of their faith is just beginning. Because the family is trapped on the ark with thousands of animals-with no experience feeding or caring for them and no idea of when the waters will recede. What emerges is a family caught in the midst of an extraordinary Biblical event with all the tension humanity-even humor-that implies.
language: English
title: The Preservationist: A Novel
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin