Blessings Upon You. Mythapedia Volume 01 · Style 1 - Arthur Job

Before the flood. Before the wall. Before the name.

In the ancient cities of Mesopotamia, a boy notices things that are not where they should be. A bread-seller guards a secret pressed into clay. A ferryman carries his pole to a river that no longer exists. A weaver follows the tension of the thread to where it leads.

Blessings Upon You is a novel built on the oldest stories in the world - the Sumerian flood, the descent of Inanna, the seven sages, the walls of Gilgamesh - and on the ordinary people who carry those stories forward without knowing they are doing so.

When fraud dismantles a household and scatters its people across the flood roads of the ancient Near East, what accumulates is not a quest. It is something quieter and more durable: the slow formation of a community from what survives.

A story about what is carried. What is placed. What holds.

Mythapedia - Volume 01, Style 1. The first of eighteen.