The Book Of Longings Christian Review. Confined in ana’s earnest narration, the story provides no critical distance, no irony, no real thematic ambiguity. It is ambitious and visionary, an exquisite and unforgettable work of historical fiction.
It's refreshing to read a female perspective on the history of the time when jesus lived. This book outshines it, but you have to give it. In “the book of longings,” she rises to.
I felt the book did an excellent job of weaving in what we know with what could have been.
The tale surrounding the discovery of the works is fascinating in its own right. In the book you will find the meaning of sex and how god designed it from a biblical stand point. “i did not take writing about a married jesus lightly by any means. In kidd’s ( the invention of wings, 2014, etc.) feminist take on the new testament, jesus has a wife whose fondest longing is to write.