Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin (2014)

Facilitated by Eileen Brogan
In the Annex - 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Tuesdays: 4 weeks beginning on January 13

Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, Colm Tóibín's provocative, haunting, and indelible portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity. She questions if her son is the Son of God; that his death was “worth it”; or that the “group of misfits he gathered around him, men who could not look a woman in the eye,” were holy disciples. This woman whom we know from centuries of paintings and scripture as the docile, loving, worshipful mother of Christ becomes a tragic heroine in Tóibín’s tour de force of imagination and language is a vivid portrait possibly transforming our image of Mary .