The Deeper Song

by Patricia Curtis Pfitsch

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689811837
• ISBN13: 9780689811838
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

The Deeper Song Sings to Me

Patricia Curtis Pfitsch's THE DEEPER SONG is a wonderful young adult novel that provides the reader with a both an engaging story and a sense of life in Biblical (or pre-Biblical) times. Rooted in research, but expanded by the author's willingness to ask questions about what life would have been like for women (and men) in ancient times, the book is alive and provocative. Contemporary readers will find the characters compelling and interesting. The historical "what-ifs" (see the author's note at the back of the book) provide a fascinating perspective on life, gender roles, and the importance of storytelling. For young adults, who struggle to find ways to tell their own stories (in journals, diaries, conversation), this will be a book of great interest because the message is that we all tell stories in order to work out ideas and communicate our experiences. Storytelling is thousands of years old; it's how we make sense of life. And this is what THE DEEPER SONG is all about. Readers should also look for Pfitsch's other YA novels--KEEPER OF THE LIGHT and RIDING THE FLUME--both of which deal with strong female protagonists and their struggles in other historical time periods. As a father who is always looking for good books for my own middle-school-age children, I would recommend all three of Pfitsch's novels.

Colorfully Portrayed life in the Past

This book wonderfully showed how being a teenaged girl in biblical times was like. It is about a girl, Judith, who's father is a priest. He strongly believes in God. Judith doesn't feel accepted in her father's religion because of the way women are treated (badly), and she secretly follows the religion of the Goddess. Judith is very good at storytelling, and is asked by her cousin, a priest-in-training, to write the stories of the bible (this was before the bible existed). This is Judith's chance to give women more power in her father's religion. Women were treated like crap back then, and so to give them power Judith wrote about them as powerful and wonderful people in her stories. This is a really great book for teens today. There isn't another one like it. After reading this book I had a better understanding of what it was like to be a women in biblical times.