So begins the story of Naamah, Noah, and their family after the Great Flood. When someone dies and you forget how they look or how they laughed, that is how they forgot the land. Then, after Shiv allowed the GoJo sale to go through, she reunited with Tom-who's now CEO of the company-and begrudgingly held his hand as they left the office, hinting at their future together.Īs for Kendall, after the company was swept out from under him, he is seen sitting down in front of the water before the credits rolled. NAAMAH by Sarah Blake RELEASE DATE: ApA retelling of Noah’s Ark centered around Noah’s wife, Naamahthe woman who helped reshape the world with her hands. (One that involved Kendall shoving Roman against the wall and Shiv bringing up Kendall's involvement in the death of the waiter from her and Tom's wedding.) However, during the pivotal meeting with company's board members to stop the GoJo deal, Shiv decided to back out of the agreement with her brothers, leading to a heated sibling argument. Together, the trio decided that their best bet to win the company was to pitch Kendall as the CEO over Roman and Shiv. Well, after GoJo's Lukas Matsson ( Alexander Skarsgård) cut Shiv out of his deal to buy WayStar-opting to go with her estranged husband Tom ( Matthew Macfadyen) instead-she rejoined Kendall and Roman to fight for control of the company. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the American Poetry Review, and the Kenyon. She received a Literature Fellowship from the NEA.

Such is the case with Sarah Blake’s debut novel, Naamah. SARAH BLAKE is the author of CLEAN AIR, a cli-fi domestic thriller, NAAMAH, a novel reimagining the story of Noah's ark, and poetry collections MR. Electric Literature Retellings can be magical when deployed correctly.

After four seasons of twists and turns, the game of Succession has come to an end.ĭuring the May 28 series finale-titled 'With Open Eyes'-Kendall ( Jeremy Strong), Siobhan ( Sarah Snook) and Roman Roy ( Kieran Culkin) made their final moves to secure the top spot of their late father Logan's ( Brian Cox) company, Waystar Royco. With prose as luminous and heady as it is grounded in Naamah’s strong physicality, Blake creates a complex woman in a complicated yet terrifyingly simple situation.

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