The Moon God's Wife by Shauna Roberts
Inspired by the true story of Enheduanna... Ancient Mesopotamia, 2300 B.C.E. Can Esh achieve her destiny despite being a political pawn in the world's first empire? Spirited, clever Esh is devoted to her family's patron goddess, Inanna, and is determined to be Her priestess one day. But girls, even a princess like Esh, have little say in their futures. Her father, Sargon the Great, uses her for political gain. Despite her wishes, she becomes the Enheduanna, the human wife of the moon god and the most powerful woman in the Akkadian empire. Now, Sargon gives Esh a mission: use her religious authority to unite the fractious cities of the empire. Over decades, aided by her lifelong friend, Ninsha, and torn between duty and destiny, she struggles to stay faithful to Inanna against a background of rebellions, assassinations, and treachery.
Shauna Roberts is an author of fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, and romance. She grew up in Beavercreek, Ohio. She was a copy editor and an award-winning freelance medical writer for 21 years before retiring to write fiction. Mesopotamia has fascinated her since high school. She earned a BA in anthropology (with an emphasis in Near Eastern archaeology) from the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) and an MA and a PhD in anthropology from Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois). She has taught classes on ancient Mesopotamia in the University of California at Riverside's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. She attended the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop in 2009, and she now serves on the Clarion Foundation Board of Directors. In 2011 she won the Speculative Literature Foundation's Older Writers' Grant.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781948077002 |
| ISBN 10 | 1948077000 |
| Title | The Moon God's Wife |
| Author | Shauna Roberts |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Nicobar Press |
| Year published | 2021-07-14 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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