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In the tradition of Daniel Wallace's Big Fish and Eowyn Ivey's The Snow Child comes a gorgeously written, brilliantly introspective, fablelike novel reimagining Noah's Ark for our modern times. When young minister Noah and his dutiful wife arrive at their new post in the hills, they find a gray and moist little town where it has been raining for so long as anyone can keep in mind. Noah's wife is set to help her hubby revive this soggy congregation, but she soon sees her work thwarted by her eccentric new neighborhood friends, among them an idiom-wielding Italian hardware store owner, a towering town matriarch, and a lovelorn zookeeper motivated to the stand by position his charges. Overwhelmed, Noah's wife fails to realize that Noah too is fighting his own interior turmoil. Soon the river waters go up, flooding the avenues of the town and driving scores of wild animals out of the once-renowned zoo. As this particular swallows up the houses, the telephone poles, and the solitary highway out of town, Noah, his wife, and the townspeople must confront not only the savage pushes of dynamics but also the delicate ties that bind them to one another. Full of whimsy and soothing, ironic laughter, Noah's Wife is a smart and poignant novel that draws upon the motifs of the biblical flood tale to explore the true meaning of community, to examine the remarkable power of the individual spirit, also to ask whether trust can exist even where trust has been lost.

Category: Classics & Allegories