A daughter whose friends also confront a world of #blacklivesmatter and are constantly judged by their clothes, their appearance and their status. The myths in this book are retold by a mother of a daughter growing up in a #metoo world. These luscious stories have never lost their magic and even in the 21stC, digital savvy kids are still drawn to the violence of the gods. There are plenty of books on the shelves that reimagine, repackage and retell the classical myths of Greece and Rome. One book that came in for particular blue Bic attention was Helen Morales’ Antigone Rising(2020). I rarely lend my books because I know the borrower will be shocked at my graffiti. I am one of those outrageous readers who underlines sentences in books, dogears chapters and scribbles annotations in the margins.
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