The Body and the Blood a rachel knight novel

The Body and the Blood a rachel knight novelAs the Middle East has gone up in flames, no image so captured the clash of cultures as did the siege at the Church of the Nativity, where Christian monks were trapped inside the fortress like church, as Palestinian gunmen faced off against the Israeli military for five weeks. As Muslim and Jew battled for control, the Christians were caught in the crossfire: endangered and largely forgotten, victims of somebody else's war. In The Body and the Blood,

lost her mind

Surely someone would take her home and care for her and buy her pretty things

"This beautifully-written novel is an exploration of the power fiction wields -- the power to inform and to change

in the Philippines

Incivility is silently chipping away at people

Savage explains in some of his most heartfelt and passionate words

and America's ill-fated intervention -- and reveals the country as seen through Vietnamese eyes

One of her family's employees is missing

parents have been telling their children to eat their fruits and vegetables

of the Lebanese transformed by such interference

or do they merely peddle fluff and fantasy—and in either case

miscommunications