03941cam a2200733 4500 1167591690 TxAuBib 20240309120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781668020876 1668020874 B0C7RWGPBR Amazon 07ea0ce3-4bf5-486d-bec4-5e16fe0a5bab OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9919589 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Lyon, Rachel. Fruit of the Dead [Libby]. Scribner, 2024. literary fiction. Mythology. Greek mythology. Persephone. feminist. parenthood. Classics. Demeter. Greek. beach read. modern retelling. summer reading. classic retellings. bookclub. greek myth retelling. book club book. mythology retellings. classic retelling. hades and persephone. books about greek myths. mythology retelling. Zoe Kravitz. center for fiction. booktok. self portrait movie. books with greek mythology references. books with mythology references. greek myth re-told. modern set classic. modern set myth. modern set mythology. mother daughter tale. persephone and demeter. retelling of a classic. retelling of a myth. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1830kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<b>An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld.</b><br /> Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, Rolo Picazo is middle-aged, divorced, magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo proffers a childcare job (and an NDA), Cory quiets an internal warning and allows herself to be ferried to his private island. Plied with luxury and opiates manufactured by his company, she continues to tell herself she's in charge. Her mother, Emer, head of a teetering agricultural NGO, senses otherwise. With her daughter seemingly vanished, Emer crosses land and sea to heed a cry for help she alone is convinced she hears.<br /> <br /> Alternating between the two women's perspectives, Rachel Lyon's <i>Fruit of the Dead</i> incorporates its mythic inspiration with a light touch and devastating precision. The result is a tale that explores love, control, obliteration, and America's own late capitalist mythos. Lyon's reinvention of Persephone and Demeter's story makes for a haunting and ecstatic novel that vibrates with lush abandon. Readers will not soon forget it. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-03-09 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=07ea0ce3-4bf5-486d-bec4-5e16fe0a5bab&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=07ea0ce3-4bf5-486d-bec4-5e16fe0a5bab&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=07ea0ce3-4bf5-486d-bec4-5e16fe0a5bab&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)