Before the age of forty, Ella Rubinstein’s life was calm and measured. A model housewife, a wonderful mother, and a faithful wife, she could not even imagine that meeting the manuscript of an unknown author would bring her such a turn. Reading “Sweet Blasphemy,” Ella stops understanding where she is— in a small American town in the twenty-first century or in the thirteenth century in Asia Minor? Is she exchanging letters with the mysterious author of the novel, or with Shams of Tabriz himself, the famous and enigmatic wandering dervish? Love bursts into her heart, completely overturning her usual—so kind and comfortable—life…