THE BOOK FAIR

Superstition, violence, murder, cruelty and betrayal, juxtaposed with kindness, compassion and love, all portrayed in Kanner’s fictional, Biblical tale of Noah’s wife.  Good and evil desires dangle over the actions of each character who must choose a path towards either righteousness, or destruction, then face responsibility for their choice.

Kanner details the story with Noah’s pleas to the people to repent of their ways, and with depictions of immense depravity, ceaseless imagery of pagan life and the primal desire to please God with blood sacrifice.

The author offers interesting insight into matters of life on the Arc: the personal relationships of the family, the care of the animals, and other possible survivors of The Flood.

The novel, colored largely in gray, gives rise to ponder the moral character of those who boarded the Arc, and to question the general nature of man as to whether or not mankind has changed for the better.

Kanner’s novel presents her theory of and the renaming of Noah’s wife, a story told primarily from the viewpoint of the woman with no name, whose affliction dominated her life.