Rahab

The narrative follows Fanny, a woman on society’s margins who clings to her child while yearning to reclaim a lost lover whose conversion to fervent religious life drives a wedge between them. Through interior monologue, vivid sensory imagery, and scenes of cramped urban rooms, it traces her efforts at self-reinvention amid public shame and private dreaming. Encounters with moral authorities and evangelizing figures illuminate tensions between desire, maternal attachment, and the promise of redemption. The work examines how personal mythmaking, social constraint, and intimate vision shape identity, longing, and resilience within a gritty city moral landscape.