Introduction: We live and die by stories

Part one: Abrahamic faith. Go from your father's house : moving to new and unknown places

Rambunctious monotheism : the feminine face of God

Part two: Hagar. The biblical story : a matriarch on par with a patriarch

The mother of Islam : looking for Hagar in the Qur'an, a tattoo parlor, and an art gallery

Full faith and effort : where I meet a feminist Muslim scholar Iftar : visiting a mosque with my daughter

Part three: Esther. The biblical story : the Jewish heroine who reclaims Eros

Purim : the farce awakens

Shoah : scapegoating and status-seeking

Part four: Mary. The biblical story : the subversive Mother of God

The shape-shifting queen : goddesses, Guadalupe, and grandmas.