Tamar is a Judahite living in captivity in Babylonia during the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar. She has grown up surrounded by Babylonians, and at fourteen is beginning to question her family's desire to remain separate from them. Perhaps Babylonian religion has more to offer than the worship of Yahweh, the god who has abandoned her to exile and who is threatening to destroy his chosen city, Jerusalem. Tamar's diary traces her faith journey as her thinking is shaped by encounters with friends and neighbours, in particular: Enki, her childhood friend and source of most of her information about...