{"product_id":"9781668020852-fruit-of-the-dead-a-novel","title":"Lyon Rachel - Fruit Of The Dead A Novel - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: * Mesmerizing. Town \u0026amp; 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Fruit Of The Dead A Novel\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Lyon Rachel\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Scribner\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781668020852\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 320 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 3\/5\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Modern \u0026amp; Contemporary Fiction","brand":"Lyon Rachel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49622904865073,"sku":"IN-G-9781668020852","price":22.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781668020852.jpg?v=1724708772","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781668020852-fruit-of-the-dead-a-novel","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}