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A PORTABLE EGYPT An eye-opener of a novel, whose incisive moral
intelligence and wicked As Dara Horn (author of IN THE IMAGE) has said, "A PORTABLE EGYPT is that rare, almost unheard-of creature: a 'political' novel that treats a divisive issue not as a chasm that runs between people but as one that runs within them." Catherine Madsen's unusual novel suggests that wherever we place ourselves in relation to the abortion issue, we are all deeply conservative, we are all deeply liberal; whichever position we take, we are likely to contradict it in our lives at some critical point. Madsen, a contributing editor to the interreligious journal CROSS CURRENTS, describes herself as a wildcat theologian; she writes an elegant sentence, an arresting argument, and a plot whose acceleration barely allows the reader to sleep. Her characters present personalities and viewpoints you will never see represented in the news. This is the novel religious prochoice readers have been waiting for. "The art inspired by God's laughter does not by nature serve ideological certitudes, it contradicts them. Like Penelope, it undoes each night the tapestry that the theologians, philosophers, and learned men have woven the day before." --Milan Kundera
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