Title: The Priest Fainted
First published: 1998
Description: A Greek American daughter spends a year in her grandmother's country, uncovering layers of family and cultural myths hidden in the bittersweet tang of her own experiences. A lyrical dish that mixes mythology, recipes, a young woman's adventures, and modern Greek history. A New York Times and LA Times Notable Book of the Year, 1999.
Subjects: Americans, Fiction, Greek American women, Greek Americans, ethnicity, mythology, Greece, fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Travel
Places: Greece, Athens, New York
People: Athena, Medea, Schleimann, Psyche & Aphrodite, Odysseus
Time periods: Athens in 1950's and 1980's.
LC classification: PS3554.A9243 P74 1998