Eve
A Novel
by B.K. O'Connor
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Pub Date Feb 10 2026 | Archive Date Mar 15 2026
Histria Books | Histria Fiction
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Description
Exiled to a desolate and harsh New Earth, in this feminist Paradise Lost retelling, Eve faces relentless toil, pain, and the resentment of Adam, who blames her for shattering their Paradise.
But even in this barren world, Eve’s curiosity only grows. When Eve and Adam discover a thriving civilization in the fertile valleys of Mesopotamia, Adam is able to find peace, while Eve fights an irresistible pull further. She yearns to understand why she was created, to understand the god that made and abandoned her.
Can Eve find contentment with the vestiges of Eden that remain? Or will she dare to taste the fruit forbidden to her, once more?
In the end, Eve seeks to know the limits to her own power, to sate her hunger, once and for all. Navigating loves, betrayals, and the duties of motherhood from Nippur to the coastal city of Canaan and across the Aegean Sea to Cyprus, Eve will go as far as it takes.
But how many Edens will she forsake, along the way, to discover who creates them?
Will Eve cross the threshold from dust to divinity, at last? Or will she return to the river valley, empty-handed, a fractured family left in her wake?
For who before Eve has known the minds of the gods?
A Note From the Publisher
O’Connor has a B.A. in English from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in English Studies from Arizona State University. Eve is her first novel.
Advance Praise
“Lucidly rendered from the first woman’s point of view, Eve manages to be essentially faithful to scripture and yet boldly original. As we should have seen all along, Eve is the hero of the story, and if God’s ways to men are to be justified, it can only be through her unique creative power.”
-- John Rumrich, author of Matter of Glory and Milton Unbound
O’Connor’s thirst for knowledge takes classical Eve on a heroine’s journey. In Eve she is thirsty to drink in language, culture, and all the Creators to understand how the heart loves and the soul believes, how one lonely body can be a universe.
-- Amy Solo, author of Wild Sonnets From the Underground Forest and Mothers, Lovers, and Roadside Burials
Available Editions
EDITION | Paperback |
ISBN | 9781592116690 |
PRICE | $19.99 (USD) |
PAGES | 300 |