Title: Rebekah: Women of Genesis
Author: Orson Scott Card
When I was in Chicago last week I got desperate. I had already finished the book I brought with me and the book I bought while I was visiting, and I picked this book up skeptically, because I had read pretty much every other book in the house (my mom gets all her books on tape, my sister survives on my castoffs and my dad belongs to a free paperback exchange so he doesn't keep books around for long). I haven't liked much of what I've read from OSC, even though I taught Ender's Game one semester when I was teaching college literature. My mom and dad love the Alvin Maker series and the Homecoming books, but I wasn't terribly impressed. And his story with the kids buried under the house positively freaked me out.
But I really got into Rebekah. Maybe it's because we've been studying this story in Sunday School recently, or maybe because my baby is named Isaac and I like to read all I can about other Isaacs (especially this one), or maybe because I like the biblical fiction (especially The Red Tent, which I heartily recommend to anyone who isn't squeamish about biblical characters getting it on). Regardless, I got totally caught up in the story of Rebekah and Isaac and identified with the struggles they went through as they tried to raise their children right.
--originally published 3/22/06
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