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eBook Summary:

A Timeless Myth Made New Again - The Myth of Demeter and Persephone Retold

Persephone, virgin goddess of flowers, has been kidnapped and raped by Hades, god of the underworld, and her mother's grief and rage know no bounds mortals would recognize. So begins a story told over thousands of years, but made fresh and new by Carol Orlock's very human story of a mother and daughter separated by a gulf of worlds, but connected by a bond of words.

Persephone comes to womanhood not as the carefree soul of flowers, but as Hades' wife, and Queen of Hell. Forbidden to be together for part of every year, the goddesses employ Hermes, messenger of the gods, to help them exchange letters, and through these letters we come to know them as they learn to live with the unthinkable, and as they turn their eyes and hearts towards humankind, who hold the ultimate fate of the Greek pantheon in their power to believe or disbelieve.

About the Author:
The original St. Martin's Press publication of Carol Orlock's The Goddess Letters was honored with the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award and the Washington State Governor's Award. Her second novel, The Hedge, The Ribbon (Broken Moon Press) won the Western States Book Award. Her stories and poems have appeared in Ms. Magazine, Calyx, Women of Darkness (Tor) and Fine Madness, among others. Her nonfiction books include Inner Time: The Science of Body Clocks and What Makes Us Tick (current paperback title: Know Your Body Clock) and The End of Aging: How Medical Science is Changing Our Concept of Old Age (Birch Lane Press), both Science News Book Club selections. Her articles have appeared in numerous national magazines.

Carol teaches writing at Shoreline Community College and for the University of Washington Educational Outreach program. She has been awarded a Washington State Literary Fellowship and selected as a semi-finalist for the Iowa Short Fiction Award.