East of the Garden: The Book of Eve

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

She is nine hundred years old and she has never spoken the full story aloud.


Now, with her husband's journal in her lap and her descendants gathered around the fire, Eve begins. Not the story the tradition recorded - the transgression, the exile, the punishment. The story beneath that one. The interior life the official account needed to keep simple.


East of the Garden is a novel about what it costs to be the first human being who ever had to make sense of what happened to her - and what she discovered, across nine centuries of carrying it, about where the divine actually lives.


Drawing on canonical scripture, Gnostic and apocryphal texts, and rabbinic tradition, East of the Garden recovers Eve's interior consciousness across nine centuries of exile - her grief, her private theology, her husband Adam's journal, and the slow recognition that the divine she spent her life searching for was never outside her at all.


East of the Garden: The Book of Eve is the first volume in Reading Between the Lines, a literary anthology recovering the voices of biblical and sacred figures whose full humanity the official record could not contain.