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02638aam a2200301 i 4500 001 CFF479E2937C11EBBE0A7F0C56ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210402012916 007 n 008 210222t20212020||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0062873679 020 $a 9780062873675 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Smith, Katy Simpson, $d 1985- 245 14 $a The everlasting / $c Katy Simpson Smith. 250 $a First Harper Perennial Edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Harper Perennial, $c 2021. 300 $a 331 pages. 520 $a Spanning two thousand years, The Everlasting follows four characters whose struggles resonate across the centuries: an early Christian child martyr; a medieval monk on crypt duty in a church; a Medici princess of Moorish descent; and a contemporary field biologist conducting an illicit affair. Outsiders to a city layered and dense with history, this quartet separated by time grapple with the physicality of bodies, the necessity for sacrifice, and the power of love to sustain and challenge faith. Their small rebellions are witnessed and provoked by an omniscient, time-traveling Satan who, though incorporeal, nonetheless suffers from a heart in search of repair. As their dramas unfold amid the brick, marble, and ghosts of Rome, they each must decide what it means to be good. Twelve-year old Prisca defiles the scrolls of her fatherâs library. Felix, a holy man, watches his friendâs body decay and is reminded of the first boy he loved passionately. Giulia deâ Medici, a beauty with dark skin and limitless wealth, wants to deliver herself from her unborn child. Tom, an American biologist studying the lives of the smallest creatures, cannot pinpoint when his own marriage began to die. As each of these conflicted people struggles with forces they cannot control, their circumstances raise a profound and timeless question at the heart of faith: What is our duty to each other, and what will God forgive? Moving back through time from today (The Wilderness) to the Renaissance (The City) to the Middle Ages (The Grave) and finally to Rome under Marcus Aurelius (The Paradise), Tom, Guilia, Felix, and Prisca search and suffer for love in the eternal city, made vivid and familiar as they reappear in each century. 541 $d 20210324. 650 1 $a Renaissance $v Fiction. 650 $a Middle Ages $v Fiction. 651 $a Rome $x History $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. 941 $a 2 952 $l WCPC115 $d 20240806011936.0 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20230629023537.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CFF479E2937C11EBBE0A7F0C56ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search