For twelve years, illness has reduced her existence to waiting, expenses, disappointment, and separation. The crowd knows neither her name nor all she has lost.
She does not ask for a speech. She believes that simply touching Jesus’ garment might be enough. Her gesture is discreet, but the response brings her to the center of the story.
This meditative work of biblical fiction is as concerned with returning to the community as with healing: being seen, called, and recognized after a long social disappearance. The complete English translation includes the preface, reader’s notes, prologue, six chapters, epilogue, reflections, and further reading.
Complete English translation of the revised French edition — 30 interior pages, 5.5 × 8.5 inches, with an English cover and checked contents.
Notes for the reader
Family scenes, detailed treatments, and encounters of rejection are imagined. The story follows Mark 5:25–34 and also draws on Matthew 9:20–22 and Luke 8:43–48.
Ritual impurity means neither moral guilt nor lesser human worth. Hostile fictional characters do not represent all Judaism in Jesus’ time. This healing is not a measure of the faith of people who remain ill.