Till We Have Faces – C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis retells the story of Cupid and Psyche from the viewpoint of Orual, Psyche’s sister; sifting through her thoughts and motivations, exposing her envy, jealousy, denial, and possessiveness cloaked as love. Orual ignores, refuses or is blind to evidence of the god Cupid’s existence, and chooses to selectively acknowledge and interpret events to align with her self-indulgent agendas, resentment, and selfishness. Orual does eventually come to accept the truth, and her journey from self-deception to truth is the narrative arc that Lewis uses to take the reader on this exquisitely written trip of introspection. Till We Have Faces deals with human spiritual themes similar to those in The Great Divorce: The lies and diversions that people tell themselves to keep from facing the truth, and their motivations for doing so.

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