Dean L. reviewed on 4/7/2007 + 15 more book reviews

Sarai was a child of ten years, wise for her age but not yet a woman, when she first met Abram. He appeared before her in her father's house, filthy from the desert, tired and thirsty. But as th dirt of travel was washed from his body; the sight of him filled her heart. An when Abram promises Sarai to return in ten years to take her for his wife, her fate was sealed.

Card uses his fertile imagination, and uncanny insight into human nature to tell the story of an uniue woman one who is beautiful, tough, smart, and resourceful in an era when women had little power, and are scarce in the historical record. Sarah, child of the desert, wife of Abraham, takes on vivid reality as a woman desirable to dings, a devoted wife, and a faithful follwere of the God of Abraham, chosed to experience an incomparable miracle.

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