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Content welcomes Kaethe Schwehn for a reading from her new novel, THE GOSPEL OF SALOME. Join us at Imminent Brewing on Sunday, November 2 at 4 pm!A story of womanhood in Biblical times, and a poignant argument for love and equality in today’s world.
In 38 CE Alexandria, Salome, a skilled physician with a past she’s fought to suppress, struggles to navigate the complex landscape of first-century womanhood and the rapid progression of dementia threatening both her memory and medical practice.
John Mark, a follower of the fledgling Christian movement, is sent to preach the hope of Yeshua’s message in Alexandria’s synagogues. What he finds, however, is an oppressed and desperate people perhaps more in need of immediate help than eternal salvation: the Roman prefect Flaccus has labeled the Jewish population as alien, quarantining them away from the city’s daily life and consigning them to crushing poverty.
As popular disdain for the Jewish people reaches a dangerous boiling point, John Mark turns to Salome for answers. Her story, which moves from the Greek countryside to the Roman Forum to the dusty hills of Nazareth, begins with a simple statement about Yeshua that threatens to change the characters and their world: “He was my son.”
Kaethe Schwehn is the author of the post-apocalyptic novel THE RENDING AND THE NEST, the poetry collection TANKA & ME, and a memoir, TAILINGS. She has been the recipient of a Minnesota Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, a Loft Mentor Series Award, and the Donald Justice Poetry Prize. Schwehn studied creative writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of Montana. She currently teaches composition and creative writing at St. Olaf College.
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