Elijah Tree
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.74 (934 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1608640019 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 210 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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But then a stranger, Jael, finds him hidden within the rotting trunk of a tree. Jael s act of returning son to mother brings her and Shira together through bonds of desire and faith. The Elijah Tree can be read simply as the story of women dealing with loss and abandonment who find solace through the love of a young child. One day at the beach outside her cottage retreat, Shira loses sight of Elijah and fears he has drowned. Or it can be read as a mystical allegory of the relationship between an absent or ineffable god and the prayer, scripture, or prophecies that, nonetheless, call the individual to faith.. Estranged from Chava, Shira struggles to find her place in the world while raising Elijah and mourning the death of her lover. The Elijah Tree is the story of a young boy who is birthed in the fire of a mystical
Elijah Tree Kathleen Moran I didn't like the way this book was written. I think she was trying to imitate an old fashioned type of an allegory or something, but I didn't think it moved the story along. In fact I only read about a third of the book and then stopped, it just didn't grab my attention.
Her academic research and publication areas comprise medieval visionary literature, medieval alchemical poetry, and the contemporary works of Joss Whedon, including Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. . Cynthea Masson is a professor in the English Department at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, Canada. The Elijah Tree is
About the Author Cynthea Masson is a professor in the English Department at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, Canada. . The Elijah Tree is her first novel. Her academic research and publication areas comprise medieval visionary literature, medieval alchemical poetry, and the contemporary works of Joss Whedon, including Buffy, Angel, and Firefly