Naamah
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Sarah Blake
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A wildly imaginative novel of the reluctant heroine who rescued life on earth.
With the coming of the Great Flood - the mother of all disasters - only one family was spared, drifting on an endless sea, waiting for the waters to subside. We know the story of Noah, moved by divine vision to launch their escape. Now, in a work of astounding invention, acclaimed writer Sarah Blake reclaims the story of his wife, Naamah, the matriarch who kept them alive.
Here is the woman torn between faith and fury, lending her strength to her sons and their wives, caring for an unruly menagerie of restless creatures, silently mourning the lover she left behind. Here is the woman escaping into the unreceded waters, where a seductive angel tempts her to join a strange and haunted world. Here is the woman tormented by dreams and questions of her own - questions of service and self-determination, of history and memory, of the kindness or cruelty of fate.
In fresh and modern language, Blake revisits the story of the ark that rescued life on earth and rediscovers the agonizing burdens endured by the woman at the heart of the story. Naamah is a parable for our time: a provocative fable of body, spirit, and resilience.
©2019 Sarah Blake (P)2019 Penguin AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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Critic reviews
"A dreamy and transgressive feminist retelling of the Great Flood from the perspective of Noah’s wife as she wrestles with the mysterious metaphysics of womanhood at the end of the world.” (O, The Oprah Magazine)
“A poetic debut of biblical proportions.... [In] mesmerizing prose poem-esque sections, the novel explores themes of sexuality, purpose, loss, love, and faith.” (Kirkus Reviews)
“Sarah Blake's dazzling novel Naamah offers a new vision of storytelling and belief, rendered through the body of a woman. In this beautiful reconception of a flood, Noah's wife emerges as an earth-bound soul savior as well as a desiring body capable of generating epic myth. In between hope and hell, and up against the divine, Naamah reminds us that the bodies and voices of women were always the heart of the story. Naamah is a new myth-making triumph.” (Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children)
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Fourteen-year-old Leven Thumps (a.k.a. "Lev") is no ordinary boy, but that's exactly what Sabine and his dark shadows want him to believe. They know the fate of the world and the dreams of all mankind can be saved by one boy with a powerful gift, one he has yet to understand or control. Enter Clover, a funny foot-high sidekick; Winter, a girl who can freeze things; and Geth, the rightful heir to the dream world of Foo. Three transplants with only one mission: to retrieve Leven and save Foo.
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Terrible YA Fantasy
- By Arwen on 04-05-12
By: Obert Skye
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The List
- By: Patricia Forde
- Narrated by: Imogen Wilde
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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In the post-apocalyptic, neo-medieval city of Ark, speech is constrained to 500 sanctioned words. If somewhere were to speak outside that approved lexicon, they'd face banishment. The only exceptions to this rule are the Wordsmith and his apprentice, Letta. Together, they are the keepers and archivists of all language. But when Letta's master dies, she is suddenly promoted to Wordsmith and finds the situation more complicated than she knew.
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Love is Language
- By Jennie Smith on 02-19-21
By: Patricia Forde
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Now & Then
- By: Jacqueline Sheehan
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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Anna O’Shea has failed at marriage, shed her job at a law firm, and she’s trying to re-create herself when she and her recalcitrant nephew are summoned to the past in a manner that nearly destroys them. Her twenty-first-century skills pale as she struggles to find her nephew in nineteenth-century Ireland. For one of them, the past is brutally difficult, filled with hunger and struggle. For the other, the past is filled with privilege, status, and a reprieve from the crushing pain of present-day life. For both Anna and her nephew, the past offers them a chance at love.
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Loved This Book
- By Janina on 03-07-17
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Tiger's Promise
- By: Colleen Houck
- Narrated by: Annika Boras
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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Before Kelsey there was a girl, raised by a villain, whose love for a hero changed the course of history. Trapped under the thumb of her abusive and powerful father Lokesh, Yesubai struggles to keep her own magical abilities secret while evading his dark powers. When Lokesh promises Yesubai to the prince of a neighboring kingdom, she becomes the central pawn in his plot to destroy the ruling family and take power for himself. Yesubai is trapped by her father's threats and desperate to protect the man she comes to love, but she knows that any decision she makes will have dire consequences. As dark forces gather around her, Yesubai must decide if she's willing to reveal that somewhere deep within her she has the power to change everything.
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It was OK
- By Marisa Talley on 03-06-17
By: Colleen Houck
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Worldship: Udo the Digger
- Worldship, Book 1
- By: Joshua Gayou
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
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Udo's biggest problem isn't being a digger (that's low class), or staying drunk (that's damn expensive), or avoiding the Dwergaz (they're monsters), or even pissing off the supposed Gods. It's that his reality...well, it isn't what he thought. And now, he can't even afford to drink because his so-called friend Nicz is cutting into his business, digging up tin, iron, and copper. So Udo forms a new plan: clay. After all, clay jars are used to store everything: meat, herbs, and, his personal favorite, ale.
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I am confused.
- By Ahkia on 06-02-20
By: Joshua Gayou
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The Trees
- By: Ali Shaw
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 18 hrs and 1 min
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There came an elastic aftershock of creaks and groans and then, softly softly, a chinking shower of rubbled cement. Leaves calmed and trunks stood serene. Where, not a minute before, there had been a suburb, there was now only woodland standing amid ruins. There is no warning. No chance to prepare. They arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Buildings are destroyed.
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Post apocalypse with a little bit of magic
- By Tam on 09-20-16
By: Ali Shaw
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Planet Zero
- By: Lydia Hope
- Narrated by: Keira Stevens
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
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A spaceship crash survivor, Addie Rye is lucky to be alive. But being stuck on a primitive planet isn’t exactly the epitome of luck. With no way home, Addie has no choice but learn how to use stone tools and catch her dinner before cooking it, all while attempting to befriend a tribe of wild nomads who inhabit this planet.
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Mixed feelings but mostly good
- By CCW on 05-21-22
By: Lydia Hope
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The Downs
- By: Kim Fielding
- Narrated by: K.C. Kelly
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
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As the son of a wealthy man, Enitan Javed has spent his life frivolously - drinking, fighting, and making love. But after his father dies, Enitan is unjustly accused of murdering him and is given the harshest sentence possible. Judged irredeemable, he is banished to the Downs. As even young children know, nothing lives in the Downs except demons who delight in torturing the condemned. Brutalized by the men who transport him to his fate, Enitan has nothing left but his thirst for vengeance.
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Beautifully narrated by K.C. Kelly!
- By Belen on 10-12-16
By: Kim Fielding
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Thieving Forest
- By: Martha Conway
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
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On a humid day in June 1806, on the edge of Ohio's Great Black Swamp, 17-year-old Susanna Quiner watches from behind a maple tree as a band of Potawatomi Indians kidnaps her four older sisters from their cabin. With both her parents dead and all the other settlers out in their fields, Susanna makes the rash decision to pursue them herself. What follows is a young woman's quest to find her sisters and the parallel story of her sisters' new lives.
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Skip the audiobook, read the real thing.
- By Kelly on 11-26-15
By: Martha Conway
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Endangered
- By: Eliot Schrefer
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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When Sophie has to visit her mother at her sanctuary for bonobos, she's not thrilled to be there. Then Otto, an infant bonobo, comes into her life, and for the first time, she feels responsible for another creature. But peace does not last long for Sophie and Otto. When an armed revolution breaks out in the country, the sanctuary is attacked, and the two of them must escape unprepared into the jungle. Caught in the crosshairs of a lethal conflict, they must struggle to keep safe.
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1000/10
- By Anonymous User on 08-14-17
By: Eliot Schrefer
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Rapture of Canaan
- By: Sheri Reynolds
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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Novelist Sheri Reynolds weaves lyrical prose and folksy dialogue into her spellbinding tales. The Rapture of Canaan, a New York Times best-seller, is the moving story of a teenaged girl clashing with her harshly controlled world. Growing up in a closed religious community deep in the rural South, 15-year-old Ninah Huff painstakingly and obediently follows her church’s many rules—she knows that public humiliation follows the smallest transgression
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Really good story
- By mctoria on 08-15-24
By: Sheri Reynolds
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- Brenda
- 06-06-21
Not a good read
The story on NAAMAH, Noah’s wife and the ark was basically written as a fantasy. Explicit sex scenes and NAAMAH is having sexual relations outside her marriage to Noah. Difficult to follow the story line and under water dialogue was crazy.
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- Marshall D.
- 04-30-20
Naamah’s Journey
Beautifully narrated story, both an alternative view of the flood tale, and a beautiful feminist telling. It weaves a dreamy vision of encounters with real, or are they imaginary beings, to address the old notions of supernatural views of religious belief with the tension of disbelief and the fear that that engenders. All of it may be in the mind struggling with reality and attaining health of mind and body.
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- kathinmo
- 04-16-19
this is not an historical novel!!!
This book was full of homosexuality and incest and will be a shock to people of faith.
I can only surmise that the author is an atheist and could not choose a genre, so she just threw odd time traveling ,incest and
alternate life choices together in the hope it would appeal to enough people that they would not notice the poor writing skills.
I am a 76 year old great grandmother and was looking for an historical novel about Noah and his family and nothing in the book description of this book gave the slightest indication that it was trash.
I would appreciate your removing it from my kindles and replacing my token.
no, I am not a homophobe. I am just not fond of this kind of deception in advertising and certainly not time traveling incest.
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- Jessica Smith
- 07-14-19
Excellent narration of a weird and wonderful story
This book was so surprising and smart. Blake thinks of every detail (great world building!) and sometimes when the story seems to veer into “really? I don’t know if I can follow you down that path” territory, she pulls it off.
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- Lucy Green
- 05-18-19
Brave and beautiful!
This novel is a provocative, vivid, and deeply felt re-imaging of the flood myth. It centers around Namaah, the wife of Noah, who (as women do) inhabits many roles—mother, lover, caretaker, visionary, and midwife. She alone has the courage to question and confront the God who has wiped out most of human and animal life. Thank you, Sarah Blake, for upending a patriarchal canon. Prepare to be transported and transformed by this brave and beautiful work.
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