Think of her like a female John the Baptist or Siddhartha Gautama. Mary of Egypt was a mystic who sought liberation in the wilderness, away from society. Though revered as one of the Desert Mothers by the early Church, few people today know her story. The traditional version holds that she was a reformed-prostitute-turned-saint, but Honey in the Vein (Bric-a-Brac Press, 2023) presents a twist on the original, filling holes in the tale with...