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FRUIT OF THE DEAD
FRUIT OF THE DEAD is a literary high-wire act that dares you to look away. A seductive reimagining of the myth of Persephone, it is also a portrait of a mother/daughter relationship on the edge, and a fiercely curious exploration of power in a modern underworld.
Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of one of the nation's most successful Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies (a la Sackler), Rolo Picazo is middle-aged, divorced, magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo proffers a childcare job offer (and an NDA) as neatly as a magician might roses, Cory quiets an internal warning and allows herself to be ferried home to a private island up the coast. Increasingly plied with luxury and other opiates, she continues to tell herself she's in charge, royalty, even, an inebriated queen. Her mother, Emer Ansel, head of a teetering NGO that's invented rice which refuses to grow, senses otherwise. With her daughter seemingly vanished, Emer is poised to give up everything she believes affords her power to cross land and sea to heed a cry for help she alone is convinced she hears.
Alternating between the Ansel women's perspectives, and without giving voice to her contemporary Hades, Rachel Lyon's FRUIT OF THE DEAD incorporates its mythic inspiration with a light touch and devastating precision. The result is a tale that connects the dots between the gray zones of love vs control, attraction vs grooming, self-care vs obliteration, and America's own late capitalist mythos. Vibrating with lush abandon, and at times wickedly wry, Lyon reinvents Persephone's and Demeter's story in a haunting and ecstatic novel you will not soon forget.
Rachel Lyon's debut novel, Self Portrait With Boy, was a finalist for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. Her short work has appeared in publications such as One Story, The Rumpus, and Electric Literature's Recommended Reading. An editor emerita of Epiphany, Rachel has taught at the Sackett Street Writers Workshop, the Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop, Catapult, and other institutions; currently, she is a Ben Belitt visiting faculty member in literature at Bennington College.
Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of one of the nation's most successful Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies (a la Sackler), Rolo Picazo is middle-aged, divorced, magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo proffers a childcare job offer (and an NDA) as neatly as a magician might roses, Cory quiets an internal warning and allows herself to be ferried home to a private island up the coast. Increasingly plied with luxury and other opiates, she continues to tell herself she's in charge, royalty, even, an inebriated queen. Her mother, Emer Ansel, head of a teetering NGO that's invented rice which refuses to grow, senses otherwise. With her daughter seemingly vanished, Emer is poised to give up everything she believes affords her power to cross land and sea to heed a cry for help she alone is convinced she hears.
Alternating between the Ansel women's perspectives, and without giving voice to her contemporary Hades, Rachel Lyon's FRUIT OF THE DEAD incorporates its mythic inspiration with a light touch and devastating precision. The result is a tale that connects the dots between the gray zones of love vs control, attraction vs grooming, self-care vs obliteration, and America's own late capitalist mythos. Vibrating with lush abandon, and at times wickedly wry, Lyon reinvents Persephone's and Demeter's story in a haunting and ecstatic novel you will not soon forget.
Rachel Lyon's debut novel, Self Portrait With Boy, was a finalist for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. Her short work has appeared in publications such as One Story, The Rumpus, and Electric Literature's Recommended Reading. An editor emerita of Epiphany, Rachel has taught at the Sackett Street Writers Workshop, the Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop, Catapult, and other institutions; currently, she is a Ben Belitt visiting faculty member in literature at Bennington College.
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