![]() ![]() Louis Post-Dispatch (chosen as one of "The Year's Best Books") "Smart and Earthy.richly imaginative…the epitome of the storyteller's art." - St. Patricia Monaghan Copyright © American Library Association. Is he Esus, doomed god of the Celts, or Jesus, doomed god of the Jews, or both? Is she goddess or woman or both? Cunningham plays with complex theological issues-the role of embodiment in salvation, the gender of divinity, the question of sacrifice-but she is preeminently a storyteller, and the reader engages those questions within a marvelous, romantic tale. ![]() ![]() When she meets that man at druid school, their fated love begins to unfold. ![]() She also has a destiny that she encounters in a vision of a man in desert garb taking a leak-a trademark Cunningham touch, both intensely religious and frankly, even humorously, embodied. Yes, she has more than one mother, though it would be giving away the story to explain how. Raised with unconditional maternal love and with few restraints on body or soul, she grows to be a glorious creature, with plenty of the talents that her possibly divine mothers used for witchcraft. Mary, nee Maeve, was born to weather-witches on a magical, floating island somewhere in the Celtic lands. "The prequel to The Passion of Mary Magdalen (2006) lets us in on how a redheaded Celtic lass wound up the literal bride of Christ, and whereas Passion was deeply based in the New Testament (and the sociology of Roman brothels), Magdalen Rising is rooted in Celtic lore. ![]()
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