Uncovering the Women of the Faith

Shanan: It's easy to read those passages and not really feel the weight of what they were enduring. And i think too, that when you look over time, the women i write about are centuries ago, but they had very modern day problems. There are those universal themes of suffering and waiting and frustration," she says. "I found that in looking at their stories, gash the erpegs to to day"