- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
* "Mesmerizing." — Town & Country * "Twisty and unsettling." — People * "Ancient Greece meets Succession by way of Emma Cline…deliciously dark." —Ruth Gilligan * A "superb…refreshing" ( The New York Times Book Review ) reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set on a lush private island, exploring themes of addiction and sex, family, independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld. Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother's disappointment, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a pharmaceutical company, Rolo Picazo is wealthy, divorced, and magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo offers her a job, Cory quiets an internal warning and allows herself to be ferried to his private island. Plied with luxury and the opiates manufactured by his company, she tells herself she's in charge. Her mother, Emer, head of a teetering agricultural NGO, senses otherwise. With her daughter seemingly vanished, Emer crosses land and sea to heed a cry for help that only she can hear.Alternating between the two women's perspectives, Fruit of the Dead incorporates its mythic inspiration with a light touch and devastating precision. The result is a tale that explores love, control, obliteration, and America's late-capitalist mythos. Lyon's reinvention of Persephone and Demeter's story makes for a haunting, electric novel that readers will not soon forget.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Chapter I: A Snare for the Bloom-Like Girl
- Chapter II: The Wide-Pathed Earth Yawned There in the Plain
- Chapter III: The Sea’s Salt Swell Laughed for Joy
- Chapter IV: I Sped, Like a Wild-Bird, Over Firm Land and Yielding Sea
- Chapter V: And the Heights of the Mountains and the Depths of the Sea Rang with Her Voice
- Chapter VI: Tell Me Truly of My Dear Child If You Have Seen Her Anywhere
- Chapter VII: But No One Heard Her Voice, Nor Yet the Olive-Trees
- Chapter VIII: Strange Woman, I Went Out Wasting with Yearning
- Chapter IX: And She Yet Beheld Earth and Starry Heaven, and the Strong-Flowing Sea Where Fishes Shoal, and Still Hoped to See Her Mother
- Chapter X: Disfigured by Grief Terrible and Savage, I Sat Near the Wayside Like an Ancient Woman
- Chapter XI: From the Misty Gloom, in His House upon a Couch, His Shy Mate, Much Reluctant, Yearned for Her Mother
- Chapter XII: Go Now, He Urged, to Your Dark-Robed Mother, Go, and Feel Kindly in Your Heart Toward Me; While You Are Here, You Shall Rule All That Lives and Moves, Queen of the Land of Sweet and Sea-Girt
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright