"Eve: a Novel fo the First Woman" by Elissa Eliot

An author’s perspective on tales from the Bible is always intriguing to explore.  Can their thoughts shed any new light upon the reality of those days?  With this story of Eve, told from the voices of Eve and her three daughters, I think the answer is yes.  Elissa Eliot offers a plausible scenario of Adam and Eve establishing a life for themselves away from the Garden, which involves encountering a ‘city’ of people with gods different than their one God, while working to sustain their growing family without it splintering apart.  Not all her conclusions do I agree with, but when one steps back to consider the dilemma faced in not only being the first man and woman, but also the first parents, absent any model in how to raise a family, one can easily detect the problems these two must have faced.