She does everything she can to stop the marriage from happening, including writing down her own prayers in a sacred bowl given to her by her wise and unorthodox aunt Yaltha. When Ana is presented with a potential husband, a much older man whose political position and land ownership would be a boon to her family, Ana is crestfallen. Her indulgent father allowed for Ana’s education, but her mother resents her daughter’s literacy and wishes only for Ana to marry. In The Book of Longing, Sue Monk Kidd has created a character so full of hope that to see Ana’s heartbreak is to feel your own. She finds her voice, and her heart’s truest mate, in Jesus ben Nazareth, later known as Jesus Christ. Ana wants to have a voice, but for a Jewish woman in the region of Sepphoris, this was not permitted.
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