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Readers often think of Job sitting on the ash heap, his life in shambles. But how did he get there? What was Job's life like before tragedy struck? What did he think as his world came crashing down around him? And what was life like after God restored his wealth, health, and family? Through painstaking research and a writer's creative mind, Mesu Andrews weaves an emotional and stirring account of this wellknown story told through the eyes of the women who loved him. Drawing together the account of Job with those of Esau's tribe and Jacob's daughter Dinah, Love Amid the Ashes breathes life, romance, and passion into the classic biblical story of suffering and steadfast faith.
- Sales Rank: #41754 in Books
- Brand: Revell
- Published on: 2011-03-01
- Released on: 2011-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.04" w x 5.50" l, .75 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 416 pages
- Great product!
From the Back Cover
An epic story of love and forgiveness, suffering and restoration
When her beloved grandfather Isaac dies, Dinah must follow his final command: travel to Job's household to marry his son. After Job's world comes crashing down, Dinah finds herself drawn to this great man brought low. What will she risk to fight for his survival?
Mesu Andrews weaves an emotional and stirring account of Job and Dinah. Love Amid the Ashes breathes life, romance, and passion into the classic biblical story of suffering and steadfast faith.
"In Love Amid the Ashes, Mesu Andrews takes a biblical tale of great tragedy and skillfully weaves beauty and love amid the loss. Job's story brought vividly to life!"--Jill Eileen Smith, bestselling author of Michal and Abigail
"Mesu Andrews has skillfully brought the Old Testament story of Job to life in Love Amid the Ashes. Throughout this book she explains Job's faithful adherence to studying the teachings of El Shaddai. Then she creatively reveals how those principles are demonstrated by his interaction with Dinah. You will be moved to tears as the characters reflect the mysterious role suffering plays in our faith. If you enjoy a story that includes a powerful plot, romantic passion, and biblical truth, read this book!"--Carol Kent, speaker and author of Between a Rock and a Grace Place
Mesu Andrews is a speaker who has devoted herself to passionate and intense study of Scripture. Harnessing her deep understanding and love for God's Word, Andrews brings the biblical world alive for her readers in this debut novel. She lives in North Carolina.
About the Author
Mesu Andrews is an active speaker who has devoted herself to passionate and intense study of Scripture. Harnessing her deep understanding and love for God's Word, Andrews brings the biblical world alive for her readers in this debut novel. She lives in North Carolina.
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73 of 73 people found the following review helpful.
Beauty from ashes...
By Ruth Anderson
Since the horror of her experience at Shechem, when her brothers bathed a city in blood in the name of honor, Jacob's only daughter Dinah has lived under an oppressive cloud of shame. A virtual outcast in her own family, Dinah's knowledge of healing and herb lore earns her a place as her grandfather Isaac's nurse. But from his deathbed, Isaac sends Dinah's future down a path she never expected by ordering her to marry into Esau's clan. Though regarded as a fallen woman, Dinah is covered by the covenant promise bestowed on her father's line - a promise that through marriage she could bless her uncle's family. Only one man from Esau's clan steps forward to honor Isaac's wish - Job, the wisest man in the East, offers his oldest son in marriage. On the journey to Job's home, Dinah is awed by this righteous man's ability to look beyond the rumors and accept her as she is, in spite of her past. Job's desire to see Dinah restored, if only she'll have the faith to accept Yahweh's forgiveness, plants the first seeds of hope in Dinah that she might have a future free of condemnation.
But shortly after their arrival, Dinah's hard-won hope and fragile faith are tested as her newfound friend and benefactor loses everything. Overnight, Job is stripped of family, wealth, and servants, and when his household and riches are reduced to rubble, the man himself falls prey to a crippling illness. Covered in painful sores, with his very flesh decaying before his eyes, Job is reduced to living in piles of filth and waste, sustained by Dinah's healing knowledge of herbs. Through the horrifying reality of being brought so low, Job clings to his faith in Yahweh's greater plan, and Dinah finds fresh purpose as his friend and healer. But when those closest to Job array against him in judgment, Job and Dinah's tenacious faith is brought to the breaking point. In the face of shattering loss and crippling pain, when all hope seems lost and heaven is silent, can faith and love overcome the weight of unspeakable tragedy?
Love Amid the Ashes fascinated me from the moment I discovered the novel's premise, and it's been one of my most anticipated reads of the year. I never considered the possibility that Job lived during the time of the patriarchs, that the man famous for his suffering could be a contemporary of Jacob and Dinah. Mesu Andrews weaves together two lives, shattered by horror, into a breathtaking portrait of God's never-failing, sustaining grace. Dinah receives all too brief mention in the scriptures, raising more questions than answers when one stops to consider her perspective of Shechem's destruction. How does one cope with being branded a wanton temptress when as a young girl a mistaken night of passion leaves her hands covered in blood, bereft of any hope of an honorable future? As for Job, Andrews' portrait of the man's faith in the midst of crushing sorrow takes one's breath away. Because of the construction of the Book of Job, it's been all too easy for me to fall into the trap of forgetting that Job was a living, breathing, fallible human being. Despite the text's many passionate declarations of faith in the midst of suffering, it's too easy to forget Job the man and the human suffering that birthed the book's chronicle of faith in trials. Andrews brilliantly fleshes out Job's life and character, giving context and emotional resonance to the man that makes his suffering even more compelling and his faith even more inspiring.
Andrews' debut embodies everything I love about biblical fiction. When an author has a passion and heart for the story, they can take the "dry bones" of well-known and loved biblical characters and imbue the individuals immortalized in the scriptures with the vibrancy of the life they once lived on earth. And that life, that previously unimagined yet now fully realized world they inhabit within the pages of a novel like Love Amid the Ashes makes lives such as Dinah's and Job's relatable in a fresh new way. The reality of suffering and trust in a believer's life is such an individual, very personal thing with which to grapple, and this side of heaven one's understanding cannot help but be limited by our humanity. As someone who's struggled with "whys," I freely admit my own tendency to focus on circumstances, or the emotion of the moment, forgetting the sovereignty of the God who holds my future in His hands. Andrews' beautifully realized, heartfelt portrait of Job and Dinah is a powerful, inspiring reminder of the fact that my God transcends the whys, and when it seems that no answers are forthcoming, that doesn't mean that He holds me any less securely in the palm of His hand.
Love Amid the Ashes shines with Mesu Andrews' passion for scripture, and her lovingly crafted portrait of Job's life cannot fail to inspire a deeper appreciation and study of the biblical text. This is a humbling, challenging novel, and I pray that no matter what your situation, you'll be reminded of God's ability to bring beauty from ashes. Hope endures, God's love never fails, and my Redeemer lives - let the story of Love Amid the Ashes take root in your soul, and take heart. Circumstances may devastate, people may fail you, but God never changes.
71 of 80 people found the following review helpful.
Started fairly strong, but then fizzled
By Michele
In Love Amid the Ashes, Mesu Andrews weaves together two Biblical families -- those of Job and Jacob. Although this struck me at first as a bit too convoluted and contrived, once I read the Author's Note in the back (yes, I read the back of the book!) and saw how she came up with the idea of Dinah becoming Job's second wife, it actually seemed plausible. And I have to say that the book started out strong. Other than the fact that Jacob and Esau fought like immature juveniles rather than 125-year-old men, the author did a good job of creating characters and setting. Her re-telling of the slaughter of the Shechemites was effective at setting the mood of isolation and rejection that Dinah suffered within her family.
The story continued to move along pretty well -- Job seemed a little too "aware" of Dinah, but that wasn't a terribly huge distraction -- until about a third of the way through. After the first wave of Satan's onslaught hit Job and he lost his children and all his wealth, the book began to seriously lose traction. The dialogue and actions of the characters fizzled, lacking depth and authenticity. For example, both Job and his wife continually smiled and chuckled about minor (even silly) little things that people in their shoes would certainly have been too grief-stricken to even notice. And Job's wife suddenly became obsessed with trying to get Dinah to marry her own childhood sweetheart who she still carried a torch for (I never could quite figure out how she really felt about either her husband Job or her "friend" Sayyid). The author over-emphasized Dinah's beauty by having other characters continually thinking she was "beautiful," "stunning", etc; I felt like I was being beat over the head with it. Dinah's relationship with her maid, which occupied a central role in the book, seemed unauthentic, even juvenile.
It's hard to pinpoint just why the book all of a sudden fell apart, although I think a lot of it has to do with the subtle use (or mis-use) of language. As one small example, shortly after her children were killed Job's wife had a secret session of idol worship on her bedroom balcony. It said she and her maid gathered up the items and marched out to the balcony. "Marched?" Really? Somehow I can't picture a woman who has just lost all 10 of her children, and whom I would expect to be prostrate with grief, confusion, etc. to "march" around her house. There is also a scene where she tries unsuccessfully to grind corn in the kitchen. Here is a wealthy woman with a full staff of house servants -- why did she all of a sudden decide to grind grain like a kitchen slave? When she should be mourning the loss of her children? Dinah, too, suddenly started to get feisty, even bossy, in this household where she wasn't even sure of her own status. This happened a lot -- characters thinking, speaking and acting in ways that were confusing, even erratic, and that made no sense given what was happening.
The plot, too, also seemed to stall and at not quite half-way through, I gave up on it. Given the strong start I really thought this was going to be a great book, but unfortunately it wasn't for me. Obviously, from the reviews most others have loved it, but I was disappointed.
29 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
"I couldn't put it down" read!
By Kathy L. Kansky
Love Amid the Ashes captured me on the opening pages; the generational flow chart and scripture setting the scene for each chapter hooked me immediately. The book flowed so easily and so naturally,I truly had difficulty putting it down.
As a student of the Bible I enjoyed the historical foundation of the novel; a place of familiarity punctuated with Mesu's creativity in bringing humanity to the fore.
How wonderful it was to experience the humanity of God's people; to be reminded that we are but weak flesh and God forgives and loves us always. Thank you Mesu for giving us a very human view of the life of Job; one we too can relate to daily.
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