Eve (67 page)

11. How does the Sumerian culture of the city affect Eve’s family? What issues arise because of it?

12. If you know the story of Job, you’ll know that God allowed Satan to make him ill and destroy his family. Do you think God and Lucifer had the same agreement with Eve? Why or why not?

13. Are the dysfunctions of the first family like your own? Unlike your own? How?

14. Did your opinions of Eve, Aya, Naava, and Dara shift throughout the novel? Did the women do anything to surprise you, and if so, what?

15. We see the men of the story only through the women’s eyes. What questions would you like to have asked of Adam, Cain, Abel, and Jacan? How do you think they’d have responded?

16. Have you ever met a sort of “Lucifer” in your own life? What happened and how did it affect you?

ELISSA ELLIOTT is a former high school teacher. She is a contributing writer to
Books & Culture
and has optioned her first screenplay. She and her husband, Daniel Elliott, live in Minnesota with their daughter. This is her first novel.

EVE: A NOVEL OF THE FIRST WOMAN
A Delacorte Press Book / February 2009

All rights reserved
Copyright © 2009 by Elissa Elliott

Delacorte Press is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc.,
and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Elliott, Elissa.
Eve : a novel of the first woman / Elissa Elliott.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-440-33825-3
1. Eve (Biblical figure)—Fiction. 2. Women in the Bible—Fiction.
3. Religious fiction. I. Title.
PS3605.L447E94 2009
813.6—dc22
2008027583

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