Esther's Descent: A Tale of Two Sisters

The ancient Sumerian-Babylonian myth of the Descent of Ishtar (Inanna) is retold in a modern setting from the viewpoint of a young women whose soul is divided by the Jordan river. Esther has spent most of her summers living in Jordan with her uncle Amos, who is an archeologist and her spiritual teacher. The rest of the year, she has either lived on an Israeli Kibbutz in the Negev with her mother or with her father and half-sister, Laila, in Jerusalem. Now at twenty-two, Esther decides to suddenly break-off her esoteric training with Amos in Wadi Rum and return across the river to confront her sister Laila, whom she has not seen for four years. By choosing to undertake the journey, Esther must confront dark and painful suppressed memories of her early childhood and undertake a metaphorical and nightmarish journey into a world of drugs, black magic, and political power that Laila now rules over. Can Esther reconcile herself to that dark part of her soul that her sister still possesses? And can Esther emerge from the nightmare that Laila traps her in?

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