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Living forever is nearly everyone's fantasy, but this fresh and arresting new work from Horn (A Guide for the Perplexed) proves that it's not really what you'd want. In Roman-occupied Jerusalem, Rachel makes a spiritual bargain to spare the life of her young son, joined by his father, a priest who is not Rachel's husband. Since then, she's had dozens of marriages and hundreds of children, and we first meet her as matriarch of a contemporary...Log In or Sign Up to Read More