"Librarians and readers seeking a story of ancient history come to life will find Enheduanna's Song from the Sands rich with detail, personalized by the protagonist's reflections as she steps into her power and makes difficult choices...Filled with dramatic action and confrontations with self as well as the outside world, Enheduanna's Song from the Sands will appeal both to leisure readers and scholarly students of ancient times. The former will appreciate the high drama and personal touches; the latter the footnotes and references which cement events and fantasy in a layer of real history." -D. Donovan, Sr. Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

"In finely detailed prose, Ellen Rachlin brings Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon, to life, as well as the mythic figures of Inanna and Ereshkigal of the Underworld. Enheduanna's Song From the Sands is filled with conflict and intensity, each quest, not only a matter of achieving power, but of life and death." -Regina McBride, author of Stranger from Across the Sea

"You want to follow the priestess to bed, to rise, to her last fighting breath. Rachlin won't let you put this book down." -Kate Gale, author of Under a Neon Sun and Swimming the Milky Way

"Ellen Rachlin’s sumptuously detailed debut novel, Enheduanna’s Song From the Sands, tells the remarkable true story of the ancient high priestess Enheduanna. Rachlin guides us through the intrigues, secrets, spies and wars of Enheduanna’s times, bringing this gifted woman and the goddess she served to life. What’s so singular about this heroine? Daughter of a king, a spiritual leader and a poet, she signs her hymns with her own name. In Enheduanna’s Song From the Sands the first known author in western recorded history is a gutsy woman! Thanks to Rachlin’s imagination and rich research, I fell in love with Enheduanna and relished her anguished and opulent story." 

-Molly Peacock, Author of The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72