When Arrows Rain

Image-bearer breeders. They're only too real. In this haunting new novel, Ileen McDuring, author of House of Tables, composes a darkly elegant requiem of womanhood. It is 2011 and Jena Thompson is wife to handsome and powerful Senator Tim Thompson. Raising her nine children in Memphis, Tennessee, Jena's life is filled with home school, purity ring ceremonies, front-yard interludes with gossiping and entertaining sexagenarians, a roving sex offender, and memories of college best friend, Brendolyn