The Strange Saints of A. Muia’s Desert Between Two Seas

February 9th, 2026 | 5 min read

A. Muia. A Desert Between Two Seas: A Novel in Stories. University of Georgia Press, 2025. $26.95. 248 pp.

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Nadya Williams is the Books Editor at Mere Orthodoxy. She holds a PhD in Classics from Princeton University and is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church; Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity; and Christians Reading Classics (forthcoming Zondervan Academic, 2025). She and her husband Dan joyfully live and homeschool in Ashland, Ohio.

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