Dara grows from nomadic childhood to heights of wealth and position, terrible tragedies and recovery with her beloved husband, Biblical Job.
You don't have to be religious to love the romance of fictional Dara's growth from nomadic childhood to partnership as Biblical Job's loving wife and their prospering together in parenthood, wealth and royalty. Nor need you be religious to be moved by the authentic portrayal of Job's trials as Dara agonizes by his side and ultimately nurses him back to health.
You will suffer the sweet nostalgia for their first family, destroyed in the trials, as they birth ten more children. You will "be there" in the desert with its sights, sounds, smells, and ways of being. You will resonate with the vacillations of her friendship with Adah.
You will experience her struggle as she wrestles with choosing between love of Job and devotion to Astarte when Job recaptures intense devotion to his One True God. You will sense the changes wrought by time for her and those she loves, even into death and old age.
If you are religious, you will appreciate the rootedness of her story in "Ode to a Capable Wife," Proverbs 31, 10-31, and the source of Job's story in the betrayal and forgiveness experienced by his probable ancestors Jacob and Esau.