Five husbands. Five graves. One final, desperate compromise.
In the shadow of Mount Gerizim, the woman the village calls Mara—the bitter one—has learned that silence is her only sanctuary. After a lifetime of being traded between men like unwanted property, she has finally run out of options. To survive in a world that offers no mercy, she lives in the house of a man who will not give her his name, enduring the scorching noon-day sun just to avoid the razor-sharp whispers of the town square.
Mara has perfected the art of being invisible. She knows the weight of an empty water jar—and the heavier weight of an empty soul. She expects nothing from the heavens and even less from the earth.
Until she meets a stranger who knows her name.
He sits by the ancient well of her ancestors, a Jewish man who should not be there and certainly should not speak to her. But he doesn’t just speak—he looks past her calloused hands and guarded eyes to the thirst she has buried for decades.
In a single hour, under the blistering heat of the high-noon sun, the woman who was forgotten becomes the woman who is known.
Daughters of the Well is a luminous tale of radical grace from bestselling author M.L. Bullock. For fans of The Red Tent and The Book of Longings, this is the story of the outcast who left her water jar behind to carry a message that would shake a nation—and the world.
Genre: Inspirational
In the shadow of Mount Gerizim, the woman the village calls Mara—the bitter one—has learned that silence is her only sanctuary. After a lifetime of being traded between men like unwanted property, she has finally run out of options. To survive in a world that offers no mercy, she lives in the house of a man who will not give her his name, enduring the scorching noon-day sun just to avoid the razor-sharp whispers of the town square.
Mara has perfected the art of being invisible. She knows the weight of an empty water jar—and the heavier weight of an empty soul. She expects nothing from the heavens and even less from the earth.
Until she meets a stranger who knows her name.
He sits by the ancient well of her ancestors, a Jewish man who should not be there and certainly should not speak to her. But he doesn’t just speak—he looks past her calloused hands and guarded eyes to the thirst she has buried for decades.
In a single hour, under the blistering heat of the high-noon sun, the woman who was forgotten becomes the woman who is known.
Daughters of the Well is a luminous tale of radical grace from bestselling author M.L. Bullock. For fans of The Red Tent and The Book of Longings, this is the story of the outcast who left her water jar behind to carry a message that would shake a nation—and the world.
Genre: Inspirational