A book recommendation
May. 17th, 2011 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elabyOne of the most amazing women I know, Sarah Diemer, published her first novel today. The Dark Wife, a lesbian revisionist retelling of the Persephone myth, promises to be a breathtakingly beautiful story. Here is the author's description:
Three thousand years ago, a god told a lie. Now, only a goddess can tell the truth.
Persephone has everything a daughter of Zeus could want–except for freedom. She lives on the green earth with her mother, Demeter, growing up beneath the ever-watchful eyes of the gods and goddesses on Mount Olympus. But when Persephone meets the enigmatic Hades, she experiences something new: choice.
Zeus calls Hades “lord” of the dead as a joke. In truth, Hades is the goddess of the underworld, and no friend of Zeus. She offers Persephone sanctuary in her land of the dead, so the young goddess may escape her Olympian destiny.
But Persephone finds more than freedom in the underworld. She finds love, and herself.
Sarah writes for - I very much believe - all the right reasons. She writes so that her readers can see something of themselves in her stories, so that they can be whisked away by her poetic style, so they can have a little bit of literary magic in their lives. She describes her own philosophies much better than I ever could: her blog is at muserising.com, and I recommend it to anyone who is interested in love, magic, equality, and just a general all-around joy for life. You can find ways to buy her book on her blog, or on her website at oceanid.org. Sarah is not only a good person to support because this is her first published novel, but also because of the love she spreads and the work she does for women, glbtq people, and everyone who ever had a dream.
Three thousand years ago, a god told a lie. Now, only a goddess can tell the truth.
Persephone has everything a daughter of Zeus could want–except for freedom. She lives on the green earth with her mother, Demeter, growing up beneath the ever-watchful eyes of the gods and goddesses on Mount Olympus. But when Persephone meets the enigmatic Hades, she experiences something new: choice.
Zeus calls Hades “lord” of the dead as a joke. In truth, Hades is the goddess of the underworld, and no friend of Zeus. She offers Persephone sanctuary in her land of the dead, so the young goddess may escape her Olympian destiny.
But Persephone finds more than freedom in the underworld. She finds love, and herself.
Sarah writes for - I very much believe - all the right reasons. She writes so that her readers can see something of themselves in her stories, so that they can be whisked away by her poetic style, so they can have a little bit of literary magic in their lives. She describes her own philosophies much better than I ever could: her blog is at muserising.com, and I recommend it to anyone who is interested in love, magic, equality, and just a general all-around joy for life. You can find ways to buy her book on her blog, or on her website at oceanid.org. Sarah is not only a good person to support because this is her first published novel, but also because of the love she spreads and the work she does for women, glbtq people, and everyone who ever had a dream.
