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Magdalene imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as a woman who embodies the spiritual and sensual, alive in a contemporary landscape— hailing a cab, raising a child, listening to the news on the radio. Between facing the traumas of her past and navigating daily life, the narrator of Magdalene yearns for the guidance of her spiritual teacher, a Christ figure, whose death she continues to grieve. Erotic, spirited, and searching for meaning, she is a woman striving to be the subject of her own life, fully human and alive to the sacred in the mortal world.FROM “BEFORE THE BEGINNING”Was I ever virgin?Did someone touch me before I could speak?Who had me before I knew I was an I?So that I wanted that touch again and againWithout knowing why or who or from whence it came?
