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Book SynopsisFifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this dazzling follow-up to the bestselling My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me. Icarus flies once more. Aztec jaguar gods again stalk the earth. An American soldier designs a new kind of Trojan horse—his cremains in a bullet. Here, in beguiling guise, are your favorite mythological figures alongside characters from Indian, Punjabi, Inuit, and other traditions.
Aimee Bender retells the myth of the
Titans.Elizabeth McCracken retells the myth of
Lamia, the child-eating mistress of Zeus.
Madeline Miller retells the myth of
Galatea. Kevin Wilson retells the myth of
Phaeton, from Ovid’s
Metamorphoses. Emma Straub and Peter Straub retell the myth of
Persephone. Heidi Julavits retells the myth of
Orpheus and Euridice. <
