My name is Mary.

She is remembered as The Virgin, as if her worth began and ended with one unbroken fact. But before the manger, before the cross, before the songs and statues, there was a girl named Mary-young, wild, and full of questions.

Mother of God is a luminous retelling of the life of Mary of Nazareth, told in her own words. From the early visions of sea and starlight, through the terror and awe of the angel's visitation, through the loneliness of carrying a secret the world refused to believe-this is Mary as you never knew her: not some abstract icon, but a living, breathing woman.

In the insults of a town that shamed her, in the quiet grief of watching her son walk the path of sacrifice, and in the agony of standing at the foot of his cross, Mary holds on to her faith, her grief, and her voice. This book explores the cost of being selected, the depth of motherhood, and the power of a woman whose story has lain too long beneath reverence.

It's more than a gesture of divine obedience, Mother of God is a reclaiming-a depiction of a woman who was something greater than a virgin, greater than a mother, greater than a vessel. She was Mary.