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Song of the Magdalene Donna Jo Napoli

Song of the Magdalene By Donna Jo Napoli

Song of the Magdalene by Donna Jo Napoli


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Summary

Relates the story of Miriam, a young girl being raised by her widowed father in ancient Israel, who grows up to be Mary Magdalene.

Song of the Magdalene Summary

Song of the Magdalene by Donna Jo Napoli

The story of a teenage Mary Magdalene -- here called Miriam -- is finally told....
When the world goes dark and her mind explodes within her, Miriam's future is shattered. In ancient Israel such seizures make her unclean. If anyone finds out about them, she will be an outcast.
Only Abraham -- the son of Hannah, her caretaker -- shares her secret. Abraham, too, is afflicted -- a perfect mind in an imperfect body -- and to the villagers he is an idiot.
To Miriam he is a savior....

Song of the Magdalene Reviews

School Library Journal A gripping novel that is hard to put down
School Library Journal The narrative is rich with modern issues of gender, disability, violence against women, and spirituality.
Booklist [Written with] richness of detail and depth of feeling....Lyrical writing and layered characterizations....

About Donna Jo Napoli

Donna Jo Napoli is the acclaimed and award-winning author of many novels, both fantasies and contemporary stories. She won the Golden Kite Award for Stones in Water in 1997. Her novel Zel was named an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon, and a School Library Journal Best Book, and a number of her novels have been selected as ALA Best Books. She is a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband. Visit her at DonnaJoNapoli.com.

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NLS9780689873966
9780689873966
0689873964
Song of the Magdalene by Donna Jo Napoli
New
Paperback
Simon & Schuster
2004-05-01
256
N/A
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