Tessa is nine-years-old when a humiliating experience forever alters her naive perception of the society in which she lives. Nathan is twelve-years-old, dark haired and inscrutable. To Tessa, he is a dead-pan, distant ghost flitting into view and then dissolving in a blink... but an odd conversation with him changes it all.
The Rising draws on Wendy Wright’s experience as a scholar and teacher, wife, mother and believer, to hand us back old truths with new ways of connecting to them. An enthralling blending of Scripture, spiritual classics, art, poetry, and everyday experience, Wright explores the mystery of these seasons deeply, joyously, and courageously, and invites readers to do the same.