Genesis 2: The Passion of Emma Ray Earle
GENESIS 2: THE PASSION OF EMMA RAY EARLE - I am in the process of seeking representation for the book so if you know of a literary agent who's looking specifically for speculative fiction, adult magical realism, EMAIL ME!
ABOUT THE BOOK: EverGreen Circle Round Trailer Park is a place where the human comes before the law, babies are found daily in giant clam shells, and men who are about to turn ugly are tossed into a pit, naked and without weapons, so they can’t hurt anyone. Park born and bred Emma never had any plans to leave her beloved home but when she falls in love with childhood friend Robert Earle the power of their love triggers the mysterious balancing and the clueless Emma is thrust onto the path of becoming Mighty Creation.
An aching paean to life, love, and humanity and written in a stunning “southern epic” voice, Emma is a character like no other from a place like no other, with a spirituality and world mythos like no other. Gritty, hysterically funny, and riddled with beautiful, soul-twisting lines and truths that will take your breath away, Genesis 2 is dedicated to the women who will not be tamed and the men who love them. Gritty, spiritual, hysterically funny, and riddled with beautiful, soul-twisting lines and truths that will take your breath away, Emma is a character like no other from a place like no other, with a spirituality and world mythos like no other.
An aching paean to life, love, and humanity and written in a stunning “southern epic” voice, Emma is a character like no other from a place like no other, with a spirituality and world mythos like no other. Gritty, hysterically funny, and riddled with beautiful, soul-twisting lines and truths that will take your breath away, Genesis 2 is dedicated to the women who will not be tamed and the men who love them. Gritty, spiritual, hysterically funny, and riddled with beautiful, soul-twisting lines and truths that will take your breath away, Emma is a character like no other from a place like no other, with a spirituality and world mythos like no other.
“Katherine Manaan has woven a phantasmagorical reawakening of the world, with a heroine unlike any in literary history and a cast of eccentric characters who arrive cataclysmically alive. Loving, whimsical, wise, sexualized, fearsome--and fearless--Emma is a new earth mother for the ages, a goddess taking us back to a garden yet to be grown. "
“A unique book of inspired fantasy, mingled with hard edged reality and humor, and written with a stunningly fresh voice.”
“The Passion of Emma Ray Earle, is the kind of literary quest that comes along once every 50 years. Genesis 2: is the pagan’s Lord of the Rings, and Katherine Manaan is the pagan’s Tolkien.”
GENESIS 2: THE PASSION OF EMMA RAY EARLE
BY
KATHERINE MANAAN
"God is separate from nature and nature is condemned of God. It’s right there in Genesis. Our story of the fall in the garden sees nature as corrupt and the myth corrupts the whole world for us…It is the sociological function of myth that has taken over the world — and it is out of date. What is the new mythology to be, the mythology of this unified earth as one harmonious whole?...What better mythical element could we find than the ancient concept of the heiros gamos, the sacred joining between god and goddess, the concept of a Sacred Marriage…” Joseph Campbell
"Man and his kind lied the Goddess away and took the God's horns. Man and his kind broke the balance....." Jane Lee Randall
CHAPTER 1 – IN THE BEGINNING - 1975
I’m in my memories as I write this. You get old like me, and one memory begats another, and there’s no such thing as a new experience. There is a “new,” though, in the way you feel what happened, and you end up with colors and shapes you didn’t see ’cause you were standing too close. You end up with reasons you couldn’t possibly of known ’cause you were too busy putting one foot in front of the other, just to survive. You even bump into random.
Old people, we like to look at life as a whole, we like to think about what gave rise to what. I’d no clue the killing of Sweet Sam and that first trip to straight-line-world was the start of me becoming Mighty Creation. I’d no clue committing to walk the path of love later on sealed the deal and I’d end up facing down man and the God he created, and birthing a whole new world. None of this was on my to-do list.
If you’re looking for smooth, for easy, you might wanna skip the path of love. Living the everyday of other and opposites is like being pulled in four different directions by slow moving horses. But that’s how I seen what they done. Man and his mean, old god. And that’s why I chose to fight. It never occurred to me I wouldn’t win but that wasn’t the point. The battle itself was the point. It was next right action and I’ve always lived my life one right action after the other. Who knew my right action was the living, juicy, pink of humanity’s dream? It’s a long story, a woman’s story, and worth the tell.....
If you loved....
Women Who Run Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Rebirth of the Goddess by Carol P. Christ, Merlin Stone's When God Was A Woman,
and Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood,
StarHawk's The Spiral Dance, and
Riane Eisler's The Chalice and The Blade.....
AND
If you've ever wondered what a world without patriarchy might look like, not as ideal utopia but a place where the human and the humane are intrinsic to life and living. And there is balance, a working partnership between the sacred masculine and the sacred feminine...you will love, Genesis 2: The Passion of Emma Ray Earle.
Women Who Run Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Rebirth of the Goddess by Carol P. Christ, Merlin Stone's When God Was A Woman,
and Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood,
StarHawk's The Spiral Dance, and
Riane Eisler's The Chalice and The Blade.....
AND
If you've ever wondered what a world without patriarchy might look like, not as ideal utopia but a place where the human and the humane are intrinsic to life and living. And there is balance, a working partnership between the sacred masculine and the sacred feminine...you will love, Genesis 2: The Passion of Emma Ray Earle.