January 1067. Charismatic bishop Odo of Bayeux commissions a wall hanging, on a scale never seen before, to celebrate the conquest of Britain by his brother, William, Duke of Normandy. What he cannot anticipate is how utterly this will change his life-even more than the invasion itself. His life...
Then I find that the heart and guts keep their own stubborn vigil. When we say we have given up hope, all we are really doing is challenging Madam Fortune to prove us wrong.When I was a little girl in the city of my birth, when my mother was still alive, she would take me to the synagogue, to sit...
Her features appear strangely pulled forward, cheeks, brows, lips all bunched around her sharp nose like a curious configuration of sails about a mast. He starts to laugh, though Agatha shows no sign of wishing to join him. “You are awake? Aren’t you?” she demands. “Because I need to speak to you...