Book Review

I just finished reading Havah by Tosca Lee and was profoundly moved by it. It is a fictional telling of the life of Eve. Tosca uses her imagination to challenge many western assumptions about the garden and life after the garden. It is well written and quite gripping. I was a little bit taken aback at the occasional crudeness or graphic-ness of the book. It's not gratuitous, but instead gives you a raw feeling of the time and place of everything. Some of the ideas that stood out to me were:
- just how much was really lost in the fall from perfection. We take so much for granted because the fallen nature is all we know. What loss to know perfection in relation to creation, spouse, and God and then lose it.
- when God gives Eve the promise of a seed to destroy Satan, we are able to draw the line to Christ; she wouldn't have and so might have assumed her first born son would be the one. What disappointment to come to the end of her life and not see redemption.
-we have so much more understanding of God and His plans because of His word. They most likely had nothing and were grasping to figure out how to live and serve him as imperfect beings.

I highly recommend this book and believe it will give you much food for thought!