ZOOM BOOK DISCUSSION
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 16, 2020
AT 2:00 PM
A retelling of ancient Greek lore gives exhilarating voice to a witch, whose commanding narrates Miller's dazzling second novel. The writer returns to Homer, the wellspring that led her to an Orange Prize for The Song of Achilles (2012). This time, she dips into The Odyssey for the legend of Circe , a nymph who turns Odysseus' crew of men into pigs. The novel, with its distinctive feminist tang, starts with the sentence: "When I was born, the name for what I was did not exist." (from Kirkus)
