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a novel
elizabeth cunningham
monkfish book publishing company
"Unforgettably original...
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John: move over."
-San Antonio Express-NewsThe Passion of Mary Magdalen won the 'sacred feminine' category by media editors of Spirituality and Health Magazine
S&P Book Awards:
One of the Best Spiritual Books of 2006
“The Passion of Mary Magdalen
explodes off the page with its tales of love, hope, power, and redemption,
making it a great read for a wide variety of people - book clubs looking for a
great discussion, take note.”
-The
Book Brothel. com
"The book becomes a gospel in itself...anyone who reads it will never approach the canon the same way again. The Passion of Mary Magdalen is a tour de force."
Sassy, salty, sexy —Those without an irreverent sense of humor
will likely balk, but that just leaves more copies for the rest of us to
pass around.
-LesbianNation.com
"This year's must-have summer reading."
-KINK radio
"Lavish and
lusty...Cunningham's Celtic Magdalene is as hot in the mouth as Irish whiskey."
-Beliefnet, chosen as one of
this year's "heretical beach-books".
The prequel to The Passion of Mary Magdalen
Magdalen Rising
The Beginningelizabeth cunningham
monkfish book publishing company"This amazing book could well become
a classic of women’s literature." - Booklist
Why not begin at
The Beginning…From Booklist *Starred Review* The prequel to The Passion of Mary Magdalen (2006) lets us in on how a redheaded Celtic lass wound up the literal bride of Christ, and whereas Passion was deeply based in the New Testament (and the sociology of Roman brothels), Magdalen Rising is rooted in Celtic lore. Mary, nee Maeve, was born to weather-witches on a magical, floating island somewhere in the Celtic lands. Raised with unconditional maternal love and with few restraints on body or soul, she grows to be a glorious creature, with plenty of the talents that her possibly divine mothers used for witchcraft. Yes, she has more than one mother, though it would be giving away the story to explain how. She also has a destiny that she encounters in a vision of a man in desert garb taking a leak--a trademark Cunningham touch, both intensely religious and frankly, even humorously, embodied. When she meets that man at druid school, their fated love begins to unfold. Is he Esus, doomed god of the Celts, or Jesus, doomed god of the Jews, or both? Is she goddess or woman or both? Cunningham plays with complex theological issues--the role of embodiment in salvation, the gender of divinity, the question of sacrifice--but she is preeminently a storyteller, and the reader engages those questions within a marvelous, romantic tale. Patricia Monaghan Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved