"While the Gospel accounts highlight the three temptations to which Jesus was subjected by Satan durin his desert ordeal, Chervin's work poses the sort of child's question that lay at the root of all good literature: 'What did the two of them, Christ and Satan talk about for forty days?"

"Children of the Breath is an attempt to describe the vast contours of history's single greatest, and most consequential, conversation." (From the preface)