Madeline Miller

Madeline Miller hands the page to Circe, the lesser goddess of myth, and lets her tell her own long life in luminous first person. It is mythological retelling at its most intimate: a story of exile, witchcraft, and the slow, hard-won making of a self.

Madeline Miller retells the Iliad through the eyes of Patroclus, the boy who loved Achilles, and turns the most famous war story in the world into an aching love story. It is myth made tender, and almost unbearably moving by its close.