num_pages: 531
description: Fifty 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 horsehis 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. Madeline Miller retells the myth of Galatea. Kevin Wilson retells the myth of Phaeton from Ovids Metamorphoses. Emma Straub and Peter Straub retell the myth of Persephone. Heidi Julavits retells the myth of Orpheus and Euridice. Ron Currie Jr. retells the myth of Dedalus. Maile Meloy retells the myth of Demeter. Zachary Mason retells the myth of Narcissus. Joy Williams retells the myth of Argos Odysseus dog. If xo signals a goodbye then xo Orpheus is a goodbye to an old way of mythmaking. Featuring talkative goats a cat lady a bird woman a beer-drinking ogre a squid who falls in love with the sun and a girl who gives birth to cubs here are extravagantly imagined bracingly contemporary stories heralding a new beginning for one of the worlds oldest literary traditions.
language: English
title: xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths
publisher: Penguin Books