TY  - BOOK
AU  - North, Claire
TI  - Ithaca 
T2  - Songs of Penelope
SN  - 9780356516066
AV  - PR6114.O777  I84 2022
PY  - 2023///
CY  - London
PB  - Orbit, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
KW  - Penelope (Greek mythological character)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character)
KW  - Mythology
KW  - Survival
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Ithaca Island (Greece)
N2  - Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting age from the island of Ithaca. None of them has returned, and the women of Ithaca have been left behind to run the kingdom. Penelope was barely into womanhood when she wed Odysseus. While he lived, her position was secure. But now, years on, speculation is mounting that her husband is dead, and suitors are beginning to knock at her door. No one man is strong enough to claim Odysseus' empty throne--not yet. But everyone waits for the balance of power to tip, and Penelope knows that any choice she makes could plunge Ithaca into bloody civil war
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