![]() ![]() But when Ana's adopted brother, Judas Iscariot, betrays Jesus, she returns to her husband's side near the end of his life. As Jesus gains renown for his work with the Apostles and nonviolent resistance to Roman rule, the couple begin to see that they are both in danger, so Ana leaves Galilee to join a cloister of Jewish philosophers in Egypt. When Ana is finally able to break her engagement, she moves to Nazareth and becomes Jesus's wife. Ana encounters him one day in the marketplace and finds that "he was as wondrous as inks and papyrus, that he was as vast as words. ![]() The man she is truly drawn to is an 18-year-old stonemason named Jesus. Rebellious, outspoken and unwilling to accept the subservient role of first-century women, she wants only to be allowed to write, which she sees as her calling.Īt 14, Ana is betrothed to an elderly widower she finds repugnant. Sue Monk Kidd's audacious fourth novel, The Book of Longings, imagines the astonishing life of Ana, born into a wealthy family with ties to Herod Antipas, ruler of Galilee. ![]()
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