Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. Because Passover was last week,

I've been thinking a lot about God and how. And the stories a lot of us were told, God sometimes

does great things, and then God sometimes does things that make God seem kind of like a jerk,

which is actually a very human quality,

something that today's book gets at in an interesting angle.

It's a graphic novel from Leanna Fink titled Let There Be Light,

and it's a retelling of some of these Old Testament stories through a unique perspective,

where God is a woman who loves men. She absolutely adores them.

But then these men do these awful things that men do that frustrate her and make her feel miserable

to the point where, you know, flooding the earth seems like a viable option.

It's a way to empathize with God that I've never

heard before, and Fing tells NPR Scott Simon that writing it was a way of connecting with the

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You've heard the stories in Leanna Fink's new graphic novel, Let There Be Light,

but never quite in the way they're presented here in words and drawings.

God is a woman. She creates life and the world and gets lonely. Adam and Eve, Canaan Abel, begetting and idol-worshipping Abraham, Isaac, Rebecca, Esau, Noah, and his Ark all appear reimagined by the artist and writer.

Leona Fink, whose cartoons regularly appear in the New York or joins us now from Brooklyn.

Thank you so much for being with us.

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