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    Mary: A Flesh-and-Blood Biography of the Virgin Mother

    By Lesley Hazleton

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    Starting with a dark-skinned girl barely out of adolescence when she gives birth, Lesley Hazleton weaves together the many facets of Mary's existence: peasant villager, wise woman and healer, activist, mother, teacher, and yes, virgin, though in a sense we have long forgotten. She follows her through the worst any mother can experience-the excruciating death of her child-and then looks at how she transforms grief into wisdom, disaster into renewal. Strong and courageous, the Mary we see here does not merely assent to her role in history, but chooses it and lives it to the fullest.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury USA
    Release dateDec 1, 2008
    ISBN9781596917996
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      Wow. This book made me stop every few pages and think, shake my head and readjust the picture of Mary I'd been taught all my life. Of course we've largely been told that all of Jesus' family were white and pure and simple, when the reality was probably closer to brown and struggling and complicated. Hazleton has written the first book about Mary I've read that actually humanizes her, makes her a woman worthy of admiration yet wholly real. Beware - this book, based on great amounts of study and thought, might make your childhood Marys topple a bit - but I think she may be happier on the ground next to us than on a clouded pedestal. Loved it.