num_pages: 298
description: With the coming of the Great Floodthe mother of all disastersonly one family was spared drifting on an endless sea waiting for the waters to subside. We know the story of Noah moved by divine vision to launch their escape. Now in a work of astounding invention acclaimed writer Sarah Blake reclaims the story of his wife Naamah the matriarch who kept them alive. Here is the woman torn between faith and fury lending her strength to her sons and their wives caring for an unruly menagerie of restless creatures silently mourning the lover she left behind. Here is the woman escaping into the unreceded waters where a seductive angel tempts her to join a strange and haunted world. Here is the woman tormented by dreams and questions of her ownquestions of service and self-determination of history and memory of the kindness or cruelty of fate. In fresh and modern language Blake revisits the story of the Ark that rescued life on earth and rediscovers the agonizing burdens endured by the woman at the heart of the story. Naamah is a parable for our time: a provocative fable of body spirit and resilience.
language: English
title: Naamah
publisher: Riverhead Books