The Garden of Ruth
By Eva Etzioni Halevy
The Garden of Ruth is a novel about a young girl named Osnath who is torn between her need to find out and uncover the mystery and details behind the woman the in the Bible’s Book of Ruth. Osnath is the granddaughter of Pninah and has decided to make it her life’s journey and goal to learn more about Ruth.
Beautiful, clever, persistent and educated a really strong combination for a woman of her time. Osnath, a scribe, like her grandmother, Pninah visits Bethlehem with her grandmother and uncle, the prophet Samuel and finds herself torn between two men. Wanting to visit the scroll room of this house she was visiting, she comes across a piece of parchment. As she continues to explore her relatives scroll room, she learns that the parchment was addressed to Ruth the Moabite, who was the great-grandmother of the man she fell in love with, the next king of Israel, David. As Osnath begins to learn more about Ruth and wants to delve into her life and her secret past, her efforts are waylaid and thwarted by David’s older brother, Eliab. Eliab intimates that Ruth’ s past is secret and too shocking to reveal.
Osnath is in love with David. David is a smooth talker and convinces her that he will marry her in due time. However, upon being anointed the next King of Israel he meets with King Saul and any hope of Osnath becoming his wife is lost as he is to marry King Saul’s daughter.
David and Eliab, two brothers who would not want Ruth’s past uncovered for fear of losing their inheritance. Although, Osnath wants to uncover the reasons why they want her life to kept a secret, there is a second story or plot that comes into play. Osnath is in love with both David and Eliab. She feels connected to Ruth, and they share the same joys, sorrows and heartaches. When reading this book you learn of Ruth’s first born not living and many other areas where she and Osnath’s live appear to mirror each other’s.
When there is information to be had or a mystery to be solved I will delve into the subject or persist in finding out what I need to in order to solve the problem or find out what I need to for my research or for anything else. Osnath is a persistent young and intelligent girl who has an advantage over many other girls her age. She can read and write and understands the importance of having the skill. I love the fact that she does not back down and has managed to get Eliab to give her the information about Ruth in order to learn more about her past.
If Ruth could speak she would tell you how she met the man called The Unnamed and how she developed a relationship with him. The piece of the missive that she found had his name on it and information leading to the fact he and Ruth were close. But, it would not be until her husband died of a serious illness and she met him in the market.
Ruth Speaks:
“Today the Unnamed from Bethlehem comes to me
It was from the gods
It was marvelous in my eyes.
Just what this means and how they come together you need to read this for yourself.
“I met with him many times. I went to his house. We stayed in the bedchamber and my need for love was aroused. The only regret that I have is that these months of encounters with him flew by so fast. Disclosing our lives to each other. I told him about my father and my childhood. He told me about how his brothers made him fend for himself and they did not afford him their protection. But, then the unthinkable happened. He told me he had to leave and go back to his own land. Something inside of me froze. He did not seem concerned with my pain and the one thing I needed to tell him, I never did.
Stating that I would always be in his heart were meaningless words. The fact that I was carrying his seed, made me feel even more betrayed by his words and actions.”
What was she going to do? How would she deal with her betrayal to her late husband? What would her decision be about having this child?
Naomi, her mother –in-law was a wise and wonderful woman whose advice Ruth valued and whose opinions were strong and mindful. Naomi was leaving her land and going back to Israel. Ruth decided to make the journey with her.
But, as we get to know Ruth we learn of the sorrow of losing her first born. Osnath’s attempt to mend the ways between her and Adah her husband’s first wife, do not succeed . Both women struggling to find a place for themselves in the lives of the men they loved. Ruth worked along side the people of Israel and met and related to her late husband made Ruth feel welcome.
Defying Torah Law, both Ruth and Osnath are naïve in the ways of men, intelligent in their knowledge of the laws of the Torah and fall prey to the wiles of the men they both love. As Ruth becomes more enmeshed in her new live, she becomes involved with a man named Boaz, and what happens next will defy all of the conventions of Torah law and let you know that women in Biblical times are no different than they are today. But, Ruth did ponder her thoughts and even though she went with the ways of the flesh, as did Osnath, you have to respect both women for pursuing their goals and never giving up.
Boaz is her next of kin and goes to the man called the Unnamed to find out his intentions toward Ruth. Learning that he will honor his feelings for her and now has a wife, Ruth attempts to dissuade him again, succumbs to his advances, but fails. Boaz shuns her for a while and then recants. Finding out the truth behind her lover and what transpired between him and Boaz, enlightens Ruth to just what kind of man her lover really is. Will she find happiness with Boaz, what happens next?
Osnath reads what really happened to Ruth’s lover and the circumstances for why he fled his land the crime he committed. The final piece of the puzzle will surprise you and helps Ruth to understand the mystery she wanted to uncover, with the help of Eliab. The real truth as to why he never married or honored Ruth comes out and how Boaz convinced him and why to give her up.
Osnath learns the truth and does write the story of Ruth the way Eliah and her uncle Samuel request. The scroll was placed in the House of the Lord and copied many many times. Ruth’s life as Osnath was closely intertwined. The history related by the author, the disappointments, the hardships, the feminine and the descriptions of the people and the land are so graphically depicted, allows the reader to become one with the story and enter the lives of both of these great women.
To understand and learn what did happen and why to Ruth’s true love and whether she finally does find happiness and more, you need to read this novel, from the author of The Triumph of Deborah and the Song of Hannah.
From beginning to end you learn some much about the struggles of the people of during Osnath and Ruth’s times. But, what does not change is their faith in finding love.
As I read about Ruth, I smiled as my mom’s name is Ruth and so much of her and Osnath remind me of her growing up. My mom is and always was a strong and persistent woman who left no stone unturned. Her true love was my Dad and when she met him there was no turning back. Unrequited love is something that dreams are made of and everyone hopes to find.
Osnath, thank you for honoring the memory of Ruth. Ruth, you deserved to have your memory honored.
Fran Lewis: reviewer
Author of Memories are Precious and the Bertha Series of Books
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Give A LIttle: How Our Small Donations Can Transform Our World
Give A Little: How Our Small Donations Can Transform Our World
By Wendy Smith
Everyone at some time has given money to a specific charity of his/her choice or a cause that they are passionate about. Some people even give monthly donations to organizations that help provide food and medicine to a child or family in a different country. But where does the money really go and who is profiting from your donation? Are the people that you are trying to help really getting the money for food, medicine and clothing or are the administrators of this organization getting most of it and those in need not very much? In her book Give A Little, author Wendy Smith provides the reader with the tools necessary to answer not only these questions but which charities, which organizations and which areas your donations will help the most and how to choose the ones that are the most reputable.
The book addresses four major issues related to poverty today: hunger, health, education, and access to tools, technology and infrastructure. The purpose of the book is to help the reader learn the facts that will empower you to make wise and intelligent philanthropic decisions.
She begins by describing the four big secrets of giving which are: Americans are extraordinary givers, affordable donations do make a difference, giving changes You as well as the world and the millennium project that I will now explain. This project has eight goals that the author states are achievable. These goals are targeted to help eliminate poverty and improving prospects for those living in the poorest nations.
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Goal 4: Reduce child morality
Goal 5: improve maternal health
Goal 6: Combat AIDS/HIV, malaria, and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development.
Who and where these goals will target and how they will benefit everyone you will have to read for yourself.
In order to ensure that your donations go far the author then goes on to explain how the ripple effect stretches your donation and how that works. You affordable donations will create as she states, ripples of positive change.
1, Positive changes in the lives of those receiving the donation
2. Long term, demonstrated, positive outcomes that are measurable
3. Generate high returns
4. Builds self-sufficiency
Just how this works in detail you need to read pages 28-30 to learn about the ripple effect for yourself.
The main thrust of the book is to help the reader learn which charities or organizations might be considered for donations and how to choose the right one.
Let’s start with those that deal with Hunger, then Health, Education and finally Technology. Eliminating poverty and hunger are the author’s main focus. How do we do that? By contributing to the right organizations that will help people to get food and stay healthy. Programs like KickStart that provides needed technology to help farmers and Kids Café that provides a program that helps youths develop and maintain positive lifestyles. Students are able to participate in quality out of school experiences, which provide opportunities to improve their academic, life skills and more. Read Chapter 8 and learn more about this program and how you can become part of it. That is only one program described in that chapter there are many more.
Health Programs that are needed to provide care for children with many illnesses need our donations too. Programs in Baltimore like the Breathmobile In Baltimore helps children that have asthma and allergies get the proper medical evaluations and medicines needed. Operated and run by the University of Maryland’s Hospital for Children, this program is in 17 schools in Maryland. School nurses, parents, caregivers or primary care providers refer children to the Breathmobile who show shows of asthma. The services provided are numerous and lifesaving. Chicago developed their own program called Mobile C.A.R.E. This group shares information with a child’s primary care doctor and when appropriate shifts the child’s care back to their own doctors. What this organization does and Breathmobile you can learn more about by reading Chapter 10 in depth.
Most people in the world can identify with the need to eradicate tuberculosis and malaria in our country and those around the world. Chapter 11 describes how a program called The Global Fund is fighting to do just that. The author relates stories about real people in each chapter, including this one to allow the reader to understand and go on the same journey as she did to help provide the necessary care for some many people that would ordinarily be without it and left to die. Within that Chapter you will also learn how many women came together to help empower women and teach them how to provide the care needed for their families and others. The author also alerts the reader as to how you can donate to the wonderful organizations in this chapter and where your donations will, how little you really have to give and how all of us can Change the World.
Part four of this book is Education. Like filling an empty bowl with food, filling a mind with knowledge is equally valuable and can create jobs, hope and a life for those who want to learn. A woman who tells her story describes developing Literacy Programs for girls in a program called Save the Children and how she learned to care for her children, study and have a better life. Educating women reduces child mortality. Mothers can channel more of their income to expenses for their children in order to help their husbands. When you educate a woman you empower them to understand what is needed in order to help their families and as the author relates so many times, get medical care and improve sanitation practices. Programs such as Developments in Literacy are dedicated to providing quality education to disadvantaged children as the author describes in detail in Chapter 14. On pages 164- 166 Wendy Smith intertwines all of the information and tells how your donation of ten dollars will provide sixty children with Saturday programs. She tells how other types of donations will provide many other educational programs, health care needs, food and salaries for teachers that are so sorely needed in many underprivileged countries.
Part Five describes how technology, tools and infrastructure play a vital role in helping people. In this section the author related about a day in 2001 when a man named Ken Franz was browsing a National Geographic Magazine. He saw a picture of a man who was trying to get to the other side of a bridge and was hanging from a rope. This picture made a great impact on him and many other people. Getting to the other side of the bridge is often a matter of life and death and is something that many of us take for granted. In order to create a way for people to be able to get medical care, food and the basic necessities of life they need bridges to help them get there. Ken and his brother teamed with Bridges to Prosperity in order to help achieve this goal and create programs to teach the people of these communities to how to build the cable-suspended footbridges needed for them to get from one place to another.
In this book Wendy Smith creates a vehicle for everyone to understand how imperative it is to pay to attention to what is going on around us, here in America and throughout the world. Explaining and showing the reader how little donations add up and create big donations when added together. Programs like Feeding America, where a fifty-dollar donation means 800 meals for a child in need. At World Bicycle Relief a donation of 34 dollars a year will help.
Included her are her own heart wrenching stories of the many people that she was able to help and those that did not get it in time. Programs to provide clean water, Bikes to Fight HIV/AIDS and more are described in detail in Chapter 19-20.
In the last section she gets down to the main point of the point of the book where she tells the reader the many organizations where they can help make a difference and Change the World and how. There are so many organizations that we never knew about that are described in this last part of this book that I you need to read about them, hear the voices of the people that have related their stories and are told in this section and throughout the book and you decide which one or ones you want to support and help feed the hunger, education the children, woman and men, create the technology for jobs, transportation and more and make sure provide the needed health care for those here in America and throughout the world.
I will list just a view and you need to find out and read about the rest:
Actionaid
World Vision
KIVA
DonorSchoose.Org
GlobalGiving
Websites that would be helpful too:
www.craftworkstore.com
www.mercadoglobal.org
www.globalexchangestore.org
www.tenthousandvillages.org
Finally in Chapter 24 you can read and learn about many other organizations that fight world hunger, aides, provide skills in gardening, freedom from hunger and more.
Imagine a world where no one went to bed hungry or sick. Imagine a world where every child learned to read, write and got an education. Imagine a world without Aids/HIV and other horrific illnesses. Imagine a world where everyone had a doctor and could get the medical care they needed.
Don’t imagine: Change The World: Give A Little and Make Big Difference.
Fran Lewis: Review
Author of Memories are Precious and the Bertha Series of Books.
By Wendy Smith
Everyone at some time has given money to a specific charity of his/her choice or a cause that they are passionate about. Some people even give monthly donations to organizations that help provide food and medicine to a child or family in a different country. But where does the money really go and who is profiting from your donation? Are the people that you are trying to help really getting the money for food, medicine and clothing or are the administrators of this organization getting most of it and those in need not very much? In her book Give A Little, author Wendy Smith provides the reader with the tools necessary to answer not only these questions but which charities, which organizations and which areas your donations will help the most and how to choose the ones that are the most reputable.
The book addresses four major issues related to poverty today: hunger, health, education, and access to tools, technology and infrastructure. The purpose of the book is to help the reader learn the facts that will empower you to make wise and intelligent philanthropic decisions.
She begins by describing the four big secrets of giving which are: Americans are extraordinary givers, affordable donations do make a difference, giving changes You as well as the world and the millennium project that I will now explain. This project has eight goals that the author states are achievable. These goals are targeted to help eliminate poverty and improving prospects for those living in the poorest nations.
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Goal 4: Reduce child morality
Goal 5: improve maternal health
Goal 6: Combat AIDS/HIV, malaria, and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development.
Who and where these goals will target and how they will benefit everyone you will have to read for yourself.
In order to ensure that your donations go far the author then goes on to explain how the ripple effect stretches your donation and how that works. You affordable donations will create as she states, ripples of positive change.
1, Positive changes in the lives of those receiving the donation
2. Long term, demonstrated, positive outcomes that are measurable
3. Generate high returns
4. Builds self-sufficiency
Just how this works in detail you need to read pages 28-30 to learn about the ripple effect for yourself.
The main thrust of the book is to help the reader learn which charities or organizations might be considered for donations and how to choose the right one.
Let’s start with those that deal with Hunger, then Health, Education and finally Technology. Eliminating poverty and hunger are the author’s main focus. How do we do that? By contributing to the right organizations that will help people to get food and stay healthy. Programs like KickStart that provides needed technology to help farmers and Kids Café that provides a program that helps youths develop and maintain positive lifestyles. Students are able to participate in quality out of school experiences, which provide opportunities to improve their academic, life skills and more. Read Chapter 8 and learn more about this program and how you can become part of it. That is only one program described in that chapter there are many more.
Health Programs that are needed to provide care for children with many illnesses need our donations too. Programs in Baltimore like the Breathmobile In Baltimore helps children that have asthma and allergies get the proper medical evaluations and medicines needed. Operated and run by the University of Maryland’s Hospital for Children, this program is in 17 schools in Maryland. School nurses, parents, caregivers or primary care providers refer children to the Breathmobile who show shows of asthma. The services provided are numerous and lifesaving. Chicago developed their own program called Mobile C.A.R.E. This group shares information with a child’s primary care doctor and when appropriate shifts the child’s care back to their own doctors. What this organization does and Breathmobile you can learn more about by reading Chapter 10 in depth.
Most people in the world can identify with the need to eradicate tuberculosis and malaria in our country and those around the world. Chapter 11 describes how a program called The Global Fund is fighting to do just that. The author relates stories about real people in each chapter, including this one to allow the reader to understand and go on the same journey as she did to help provide the necessary care for some many people that would ordinarily be without it and left to die. Within that Chapter you will also learn how many women came together to help empower women and teach them how to provide the care needed for their families and others. The author also alerts the reader as to how you can donate to the wonderful organizations in this chapter and where your donations will, how little you really have to give and how all of us can Change the World.
Part four of this book is Education. Like filling an empty bowl with food, filling a mind with knowledge is equally valuable and can create jobs, hope and a life for those who want to learn. A woman who tells her story describes developing Literacy Programs for girls in a program called Save the Children and how she learned to care for her children, study and have a better life. Educating women reduces child mortality. Mothers can channel more of their income to expenses for their children in order to help their husbands. When you educate a woman you empower them to understand what is needed in order to help their families and as the author relates so many times, get medical care and improve sanitation practices. Programs such as Developments in Literacy are dedicated to providing quality education to disadvantaged children as the author describes in detail in Chapter 14. On pages 164- 166 Wendy Smith intertwines all of the information and tells how your donation of ten dollars will provide sixty children with Saturday programs. She tells how other types of donations will provide many other educational programs, health care needs, food and salaries for teachers that are so sorely needed in many underprivileged countries.
Part Five describes how technology, tools and infrastructure play a vital role in helping people. In this section the author related about a day in 2001 when a man named Ken Franz was browsing a National Geographic Magazine. He saw a picture of a man who was trying to get to the other side of a bridge and was hanging from a rope. This picture made a great impact on him and many other people. Getting to the other side of the bridge is often a matter of life and death and is something that many of us take for granted. In order to create a way for people to be able to get medical care, food and the basic necessities of life they need bridges to help them get there. Ken and his brother teamed with Bridges to Prosperity in order to help achieve this goal and create programs to teach the people of these communities to how to build the cable-suspended footbridges needed for them to get from one place to another.
In this book Wendy Smith creates a vehicle for everyone to understand how imperative it is to pay to attention to what is going on around us, here in America and throughout the world. Explaining and showing the reader how little donations add up and create big donations when added together. Programs like Feeding America, where a fifty-dollar donation means 800 meals for a child in need. At World Bicycle Relief a donation of 34 dollars a year will help.
Included her are her own heart wrenching stories of the many people that she was able to help and those that did not get it in time. Programs to provide clean water, Bikes to Fight HIV/AIDS and more are described in detail in Chapter 19-20.
In the last section she gets down to the main point of the point of the book where she tells the reader the many organizations where they can help make a difference and Change the World and how. There are so many organizations that we never knew about that are described in this last part of this book that I you need to read about them, hear the voices of the people that have related their stories and are told in this section and throughout the book and you decide which one or ones you want to support and help feed the hunger, education the children, woman and men, create the technology for jobs, transportation and more and make sure provide the needed health care for those here in America and throughout the world.
I will list just a view and you need to find out and read about the rest:
Actionaid
World Vision
KIVA
DonorSchoose.Org
GlobalGiving
Websites that would be helpful too:
www.craftworkstore.com
www.mercadoglobal.org
www.globalexchangestore.org
www.tenthousandvillages.org
Finally in Chapter 24 you can read and learn about many other organizations that fight world hunger, aides, provide skills in gardening, freedom from hunger and more.
Imagine a world where no one went to bed hungry or sick. Imagine a world where every child learned to read, write and got an education. Imagine a world without Aids/HIV and other horrific illnesses. Imagine a world where everyone had a doctor and could get the medical care they needed.
Don’t imagine: Change The World: Give A Little and Make Big Difference.
Fran Lewis: Review
Author of Memories are Precious and the Bertha Series of Books.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
The Garden of Ruth
The Garden of Ruth
By Eva Etzioni Halevy
The Garden of Ruth is a novel about a young girl named Osnath who is torn between her need to find out and uncover the mystery and details behind the woman the in the Bible’s Book of Ruth. Osnath is the granddaughter of Pninah and has decided to make it her life’s journey and goal to learn more about Ruth.
Beautiful, clever, persistent and educated a really strong combination for a woman of her time. Osnath, a scribe, like her grandmother, Pninah visits Bethlehem with her grandmother and uncle, the prophet Samuel and finds herself torn between two men. Wanting to visit the scroll room of this house she was visiting, she comes across a piece of parchment. As she continues to explore her relatives scroll room, she learns that the parchment was addressed to Ruth the Moabite, who was the great-grandmother of the man she fell in love with, the next king of Israel, David. As Osnath begins to learn more about Ruth and wants to delve into her life and her secret past, her efforts are waylaid and thwarted by David’s older brother, Eliab. Eliab intimates that Ruth’ s past is secret and too shocking to reveal.
Osnath is in love with David. David is a smooth talker and convinces her that he will marry her in due time. However, upon being anointed the next King of Israel he meets with King Saul and any hope of Osnath becoming his wife is lost as he is to marry King Saul’s daughter.
David and Eliab, two brothers who would not want Ruth’s past uncovered for fear of losing their inheritance. Although, Osnath wants to uncover the reasons why they want her life to kept a secret, there is a second story or plot that comes into play. Osnath is in love with both David and Eliab. She feels connected to Ruth, and they share the same joys, sorrows and heartaches. When reading this book you learn of Ruth’s first born not living and many other areas where she and Osnath’s live appear to mirror each other’s.
When there is information to be had or a mystery to be solved I will delve into the subject or persist in finding out what I need to in order to solve the problem or find out what I need to for my research or for anything else. Osnath is a persistent young and intelligent girl who has an advantage over many other girls her age. She can read and write and understands the importance of having the skill. I love the fact that she does not back down and has managed to get Eliab to give her the information about Ruth in order to learn more about her past.
If Ruth could speak she would tell you how she met the man called The Unnamed and how she developed a relationship with him. The piece of the missive that she found had his name on it and information leading to the fact he and Ruth were close. But, it would not be until her husband died of a serious illness and she met him in the market.
Ruth Speaks:
“Today the Unnamed from Bethlehem comes to me
It was from the gods
It was marvelous in my eyes.
Just what this means and how they come together you need to read this for yourself.
“I met with him many times. I went to his house. We stayed in the bedchamber and my need for love was aroused. The only regret that I have is that these months of encounters with him flew by so fast. Disclosing our lives to each other. I told him about my father and my childhood. He told me about how his brothers made him fend for himself and they did not afford him their protection. But, then the unthinkable happened. He told me he had to leave and go back to his own land. Something inside of me froze. He did not seem concerned with my pain and the one thing I needed to tell him, I never did.
Stating that I would always be in his heart were meaningless words. The fact that I was carrying his seed, made me feel even more betrayed by his words and actions.”
What was she going to do? How would she deal with her betrayal to her late husband? What would her decision be about having this child?
Naomi, her mother –in-law was a wise and wonderful woman whose advice Ruth valued and whose opinions were strong and mindful. Naomi was leaving her land and going back to Israel. Ruth decided to make the journey with her.
But, as we get to know Ruth we learn of the sorrow of losing her first born. Osnath’s attempt to mend the ways between her and Adah her husband’s first wife, do not succeed . Both women struggling to find a place for themselves in the lives of the men they loved. Ruth worked along side the people of Israel and met and related to her late husband made Ruth feel welcome.
Defying Torah Law, both Ruth and Osnath are naïve in the ways of men, intelligent in their knowledge of the laws of the Torah and fall prey to the wiles of the men they both love. As Ruth becomes more enmeshed in her new live, she becomes involved with a man named Boaz, and what happens next will defy all of the conventions of Torah law and let you know that women in Biblical times are no different than they are today. But, Ruth did ponder her thoughts and even though she went with the ways of the flesh, as did Osnath, you have to respect both women for pursuing their goals and never giving up.
Boaz is her next of kin and goes to the man called the Unnamed to find out his intentions toward Ruth. Learning that he will honor his feelings for her and now has a wife, Ruth attempts to dissuade him again, succumbs to his advances, but fails. Boaz shuns her for a while and then recants. Finding out the truth behind her lover and what transpired between him and Boaz, enlightens Ruth to just what kind of man her lover really is. Will she find happiness with Boaz, what happens next?
Osnath reads what really happened to Ruth’s lover and the circumstances for why he fled his land the crime he committed. The final piece of the puzzle will surprise you and helps Ruth to understand the mystery she wanted to uncover, with the help of Eliab. The real truth as to why he never married or honored Ruth comes out and how Boaz convinced him and why to give her up.
Osnath learns the truth and does write the story of Ruth the way Eliah and her uncle Samuel request. The scroll was placed in the House of the Lord and copied many many times. Ruth’s life as Osnath was closely intertwined. The history related by the author, the disappointments, the hardships, the feminine and the descriptions of the people and the land are so graphically depicted, allows the reader to become one with the story and enter the lives of both of these great women.
To understand and learn what did happen and why to Ruth’s true love and whether she finally does find happiness and more, you need to read this novel, from the author of The Triumph of Deborah and the Song of Hannah.
From beginning to end you learn some much about the struggles of the people of during Osnath and Ruth’s times. But, what does not change is their faith in finding love.
As I read about Ruth, I smiled as my mom’s name is Ruth and so much of her and Osnath remind me of her growing up. My mom is and always was a strong and persistent woman who left no stone unturned. Her true love was my Dad and when she met him there was no turning back. Unrequited love is something that dreams are made of and everyone hopes to find.
Osnath, thank you for honoring the memory of Ruth. Ruth, you deserved to have your memory honored.
Fran Lewis: reviewer
Author of Memories are Precious and the Bertha Series of Books
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