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''' Portrait of Mary ''' (1994) is a novel by [[Nikki Grimes]].

==Abstract==
"The mother of Jesus Christ tells her story: how she fell for Joseph because of his muscular good looks, the opprobrium that followed her illegitimate pregnancy--illegitimate because she was already married to Joseph when she conceived a child by the spirit of God--her confusion when Jesus rejected her and her disbelief that he rose from the dead."--Publisher's description

==Editions and translations==
Published in New York, NY: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1994.

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