Synopses & Reviews
The Shack shattered our limited perceptions about God.
Eve will destroy harmful misconceptions about ourselves.
From the author of the 25-million copy bestseller The Shack comes a captivating new novel destined to be one of the most important and talked-about books of the decade.
When a shipping container washes ashore on an island between our world and the next, John the Collector finds a young woman inside—broken, frozen, and barely alive. With the aid of Healers and Scholars, John oversees her recovery and soon discovers her genetic code connects her to every known human race. She is a girl of prophecy and no one can guess what her survival will mean...
No one but Eve, Mother of the Living, who calls her “daughter,” and invites her to witness the truth about her story—indeed, the truth about us all.
Eve is a bold, unprecedented exploration of the Creation narrative, true to the original texts and centuries of scholarship—yet with breathtaking discoveries that challenge traditional misconceptions about who we are and how we’re made. As The Shack awakened readers to a personal, non-religious understanding of God, Eve will free us from faulty interpretations that have corrupted human relationships since the Garden of Eden.
Eve opens a refreshing conversation about the equality of men and women within the context of our beginnings, helping us see each other as our Creator does—complete, unique, and not constrained to cultural rules or limitations.
Thoroughly researched and exquisitely written, Eve is a masterpiece that will inspire readers for generations to come.
Synopsis
From the author of the twenty-five-million-copy bestseller The Shack comes a captivating new novel destined to be one of the most talked-about books of the decade.
Eve is a bold, unprecedented exploration of the Creation narrative, true to the original texts and centuries of scholarship--yet with breathtaking discoveries that challenge traditional beliefs about who we are and how we're made. Eve opens a refreshing conversation about the equality of men and women within the context of our beginnings, helping us see each other as our Creator does--complete, unique, and not constrained by cultural rules or limitations.
When a shipping container washes ashore on an island between our world and the next, John the Collector finds a young woman inside--broken, frozen, and barely alive. With the aid of Healers and Scholars, John oversees her recovery and soon discovers that her genetic code connects her to every known race. No one would guess what her survival will mean...
No one but Eve, Mother of the Living, who calls her "daughter" and invites her to witness the truth about her own story--indeed, the truth about us all.
As The Shack awakened readers to a personal, non-religious understanding of God, Eve will free us from faulty interpretations that have corrupted human relationships since the Garden of Eden.
Thoroughly researched and exquisitely written, Eve is a masterpiece that will inspire readers for generations to come.
Synopsis
From the internationally bestselling author of
The Shack and
Crossroads comes a rich and enthralling retelling of the story of Adam and Eve—in which Eve is not to blame.
Everyone knows the story: Eve is tricked by an evil snake and convinces Adam to go against God’s word and eat from the tree of knowledge, causing them to be exiled from the Garden of Eden. But what if Eve wasn’t to blame for humanity’s greatest fall from grace? What if Adam had betrayed Eve—plotting with the snake to convince her to take the apple before she was even “born” from his rib?
In an absorbing and artistic narrative, William Paul Young explores the gaps in the original creation story of Genesis, painting Eve as a beautiful, wise heroine, rather than the unreliable woman history has cast her to be.
Eve’s assumed responsibility for original sin has sparked a division between humans and God, male and female, that has resulted both directly and indirectly in the punishment of women through their perpetual subordination to men. Entirely different from the conversation that has been allowed to dominate our modern theological perspectives, Eve reveals that God and humans were never truly separated by exile, but rather the separation was created in our own minds.
If The Shack challenged existing paradigms regarding the nature and character of God, this compelling narrative questions the nature of humanity and our relationships with one another, fundamentally changing our understanding of a woman’s value in today’s world.
About the Author
William Paul Young was born in Canada and raised among a Stone Age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of former New Guinea. He suffered great loss as a child and young adult and now enjoys the “wastefulness of grace” with his family in the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of two #1 New York Times bestsellers, The Shack and Crossroads.