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From the author of Vacuum County, this is part one of a story about an American school teacher in China during WWII. The themes explored are romantic as well as spiritual. Passionate unrequited love is discouraged in polite society. It serves no social purpose. But if this were true, then what about religion? How can millions profess to love a deity, without any proof that they are loved in return? "When someone says God loves me," Marah Fallowfield declares, "what he really means is: I love God. And that is nothing to be sneezed at. By the force of such a love, nations have risen and fallen, cathedrals have been built, potentates toppled and the world has been transformed." Marah Fallowfield is an atheist, but she has seen visions. She is a virgin, but she has known ecstasy. She is a mother, but no man has touched her. She is overly dramatic and too comically intense for anyone to take her seriously. And her journey is just beginning.