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    Fruit of the Dead: A Novel
    Fruit of the Dead: A Novel
    Fruit of the Dead: A Novel
    Audiobook10 hours

    Fruit of the Dead: A Novel

    Written by Rachel Lyon

    Narrated by Carlotta Brentan and Joy Osmanski

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and 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 in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, Rolo Picazo is middle-aged, divorced, magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo proffers a childcare job (and an NDA), Cory quiets an internal warning and allows herself to be ferried to his private island. Plied with luxury and opiates manufactured by his company, she continues to tell 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 she alone is convinced she hears.

    Alternating between the two women’s perspectives, Rachel Lyon’s 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 own late capitalist mythos. Lyon’s reinvention of Persephone and Demeter’s story makes for a haunting and ecstatic novel that vibrates with lush abandon. Readers will not soon forget it.

    Editor's Note

    Lush and eerie…

    With no plans for college — and no desire to live with her single mother — 18-year-old Cory accepts a nannying gig, complete with an isolated setting and an enigmatic boss. Her mother, Emer, grows continuously more concerned about her daughter’s unsettling situation and sets out to bring Cory home. Lyon (“Self-Portrait with Boy”) retells the Greek myth of Persephone and Demeter with a contemporary gothic spin that’s lush, eerie, and utterly captivating.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateMar 5, 2024
    ISBN9781797176703
    Fruit of the Dead: A Novel
    Author

    Rachel Lyon

    Rachel Lyon is the author of Fruit of the Dead and Self-Portrait with Boy, a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. An editor emerita for Epiphany, she has taught creative writing at the Sackett Street Writers Workshop, Bennington College, and other institutions. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Rachel lives in western Massachusetts with her husband and two young children. Visit RachelLyon.work.  

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    • 5/5
      Poetic read
      I could relate to the relationship between the mother and daughter
      The author was able to portray the depths of a mothers love