Sinners and the Sea : The Untold Story of Noah's Wife

from ljldml

Fabulous story. To oversimplify, it is a tale told through the eyes of Noah's unnamed wife. She tells of her childhood when she was shunned as a'demon', so called due to a port wine stain on her forehead. She tells of the sacrifice her father made raising and caring for 'a demon child' as a singl...

from Cherylk

This is my first book that I have read by this author. When I had the chance to review this book, I jumped at the opportunity as I was curious to read the "untold" story of Noah's wife. Everyone who is familiar with the Bible knows who Noah is and if they were not thanks to the new movie featurin...

from amandacb

What a masterpiece by Kanner! Biblical fiction is always a dicey subject, but I thought she handled it with aplomb. Noah's wife, who doesn't receive a name until the end of the novel, is a sympathetic, relateable, and ultimately inspirational woman, the force behind the man of the Ark. The descri...

from JacobSeifert

While some may describe this book as the story of Noah's ark from the perspective of his unnamed wife, using such a simple description would do Kanner's masterful tale a gross injustice. The story of Noah's ark is really only the background from which Kanner explores a number of weighty issues in...

from Wilwarin

Arc received through NetGalley.This is a story about Noah and the arc tolled by his wife. I thought that the beginning was kind of slow and not so interesting, but the further into the book I got the more interesting it got. I am not knowledged about the stories of the Bible and especially not ab...