Bibliograph

This is why I came, a novel, Mary Rakow

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Label

This is why I came, a novel, Mary Rakow

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-189)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

This is why I came

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

903763785

Responsibility statement

Mary Rakow

Sub title

a novel

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"--Dust jacket

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