I usually wait till I finish a book to contemplate blogging about it. But I am not even half way through Christ the Lord Out of Egypt and I am blown away. I like her novels, she walks through the dark side of our experience and personalizes them in the vampires, but more so for me in the character of Lasher.
Years ago, I heard her on an NPR show discussing one of her books and the discussion turned theological, looking to the question of evil, how it might be explored, and how Ms. Rice did explore it. She seemed more taken with the discussion then the commentator.
It did not surprise me when she declared for the faith. And she has now turned her talents to something that reads and tastes like the Holy Land in the days of our Lord.
The book begins its journey in the 'between time' of the gospel, between the birth narratives and Jesus coming to Jerusalem at the age of 12. The root of the story is from Matthew 2: 19ff, "When Herod died, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother; and to to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child's life are dead . . ."
Thank you Ms. Rice.
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