Summary:
When young minister Noah and his dutiful wife arrive at their new post
in the hills, they've reached a gray and wet little town where it’s been
raining for as long as anyone can remember. Noah’s wife is determined to help
her husband revive this soggy congregation but soon finds her efforts thwarted
by her eccentric new neighbors, among them an idiom-wielding Italian hardware
store owner, a towering town matriarch, and a lovelorn zookeeper determined to
stand by his charges. Overwhelmed, Noah’s wife fails to realize that Noah, too,
is battling his own internal crisis.
Soon the river waters rise, flooding the streets of the town and driving scores of wild animals out of the once-renowned zoo. As the water swallows up the houses, the telephone poles, and the single highway out of town, Noah, his wife, and the townspeople must confront not only the savage forces of nature but also the fragile ties that bind them to one another, all before their world is washed away.
Full of whimsy and gentle ironic humor, Noah’s Wife is a wise and poignant novel that draws on the motifs of the biblical flood story to explore the true meaning of community, to examine the remarkable strength of the human spirit, and to ask whether hope can exist even where faith has been lost.
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About the Author:
Lindsay Starck was born in Wisconsin
and raised in the Milwaukee Public Library. She went on to earn her B.A.
in literature from Yale and her M.F.A. from Notre Dame. She currently writes
and teaches in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she lives with her husband
and their dog. Noah's Wife is her first novel.
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