I was the wife of Jesus ben Joseph of Nazareth. The Book of Longings is about a woman named Ana who ends up married to Jesus. Though, really, it’s only the story of Ana, Jesus’ wife, that can be spoiled because I’m assuming that readers don’t need a spoiler alert that Jesus is crucified in the end. This book is about the recovering of the voices of women in a culture that hides them, and that idea was constantly on my mind as I read the book.Īnd, just as a warning: spoilers ahead. She explains in the readers guide in my edition, “I’d been exploring feminist theology for years and writing about silenced and marginalized women and the missing feminine within religion” (guide, p. I really enjoyed this book partly because of the connections that I made as I read to works of feminist biblical scholars-some of which I’m sure were an inspiration to Sue Monk Kidd since she has said that feminist theology was an inspiration to her in writing this book. This post is a review of the book based in part on the comments I made as part of the virtual book club. Toward the end of 2021 I participated in a virtual book club through my alma mater, Georgetown University, in which we read Sue Monk Kidd’s The Book of Longings (Penguin Books, 2020).
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