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Woman is born free, and everywhere she is in corsets. . . .
Lili du Chatelet yearns to know more about her mother, the
brilliant French mathematician Emilie. But the shrouded details of
Emilie's unconventional life--and her sudden death--are elusive.
Caught between the confines of a convent upbringing and the
intrigues of the Versailles court, Lili blossoms under the care of
a Parisian salonniere as she absorbs the excitement of the
Enlightenment, even as the scandalous shadow of her mother's past
haunts her and puts her on her own path of self-discovery.
Laurel Corona's breathtaking new novel, set on the eve of the
French Revolution, vividly illuminates the tensions of the times,
and the dangerous dance between the need to conform and the desire
to chart one's own destiny and journey of the heart.
Forty-two writers are represented in this fourth anthology from San
Diego Writers, Ink, in a collection that includes poetry, short
stories, novel and memoir excerpts, creative nonfiction, and flash
fiction.
The award-winning author of "The Four Seasons" retells "The
Odyssey" from the point of view of Odysseus and Penelope's
daughter.
With her father Odysseus gone for twenty years, Xanthe barricades
herself in her royal chambers to escape the rapacious suitors who
would abduct her to gain the throne. Xanthe turns to her loom to
weave the adventures of her life, from her upbringing among
servants and slaves, to the years spent in hiding with her mother's
cousin, Helen of Troy, to the passion of her sexual awakening in
the arms of the man she loves.
And when a stranger dressed as a beggar appears at the palace,
Xanthe wonders who will be the one to decide her future-a suitor
she loathes, a brother she cannot respect, or a father who doesn't
know she exists...
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