Eve’s Daughters

This month I just wanted to find a good Christian fiction book to share with you. It gets more difficult to do so each month. You don't want me to waste your time with most of what is considered that genre today. So I searched my library and came up with a memorable novel that I know you will enjoy. I have read it again to refresh my memory and it was just as pleasurable the second time.

First published in 1999, Eve's Daughters, by Lynn Austin, traces four generations of women from pre-WWI Germany, to the United States in the 1980's. Broken into parts, it is written from each woman's perspective of her struggles and triumphs as well as the impact her culture has upon her, and how her decisions affected future generations.

The book opens as a woman sees her grand-daughter's marriage unravel. Maybe if she hadn't hidden the truth about her own marriage, things would be different. Will the truth about her secret really heal the hurts?

This book gives a great picture of how our choices affect those who come after us. It deals with choice of a marriage partner and then Biblical submission to that choice; the choice of serving the living God or doing one's own thing( though each character's salvation is vaguely referred to); the option of taking responsibility for actions, seeking forgiveness and letting God give a second chance.

The scenarios in this book are played out each day all around us. We need to be aware so as not to be overtaken in the same sins. As John Donne wrote, "No man is an island unto himself…" Our decisions and actions will have consequences in future generations.

Though it deals with hard subjects, this book is in no way tedious. Once you start it… you will not be able to put it down. It and other novels by the same author are available at Amazon.com