In Their Words

A beautifully delivered first novel. I look forward to whatever Dupont writes next, and I do not say that lightly.

Reads like it was written by someone who has actually thought about something for a long time, which is more than one can say for most contemporary fiction.

The kind of novel that makes you put it down to catch your breath. It is so rare in Christian writing today.

There is a great understanding, in this book, of the Jewish context that Jesus was raised in that I did not expect, and that I find I needed.

Dupont writes with faith absent of piety and about doubt and a host of other emotions associated with the holy family. That alone is rare. The novel is rarer still.

I read Joseph: Protecting the Messiah over a long weekend and have been thinking about the magi scene for a month. There is an awe and stillness in these prose that I have not encountered in years.