Song of the Magdalene

Song of the Magdalene by Donna Jo Napoli

This book is amazing, I love these historical Fiction books, and Donna Jo Napoli is a great author I read another book by her a couple of years ago and it was great. This book is set Right before Christ was born and it is about a Jewish Girl Named Miriam. Miriam is in an upper class Jewish family and her mother is dead so she is raised by her father and Hannah her house keeper. She has a friendship with Hannah's son Abraham who has celebral Palsy and cannot move any part of his body besides one of his hands. Well, Miriam starts to have fits and decides that she will not get married. Abraham finds out and keeps the secret with her. He teaches her to read which bad back then and in return she pushes him around town in his cart which i think is bad because back then he was considered and idiot and was dirt even though he was really smart. Miriam and Abraham end up falling in love and she got pregnant with out them getting married. He Dies shortly after and she loses the baby. She is forced to go live with her uncle and she leaves there when he finds out that she has fits. She goes and Lives in caves and prays to the creator, until one day she finds a woman with a sick child, they then go to a healer named Joshua who the Romans called Jesus. She goes to with them to find Joshua who ends up being in her Hometown where people think that she has demons. She has a fit right in front of Joshua and People tell him to leave her alone. He helps her and she spends the rest of her life following him around helping people, being called Mary Magdelene.