: This "savvily plotted" reimagining was shortlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction and named a best book of the year by The Guardian and NPR. Reader Demographics & Appeals

: Readers particularly enjoy her witty, increasingly sarcastic letters to an absent Odysseus, which provide a humorous counterpoint to his "heroic" wandering.

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