She uses formal, stilted language that is, perhaps, supposed to create a sense of antiquity but instead just feels unnatural. The author doesn’t quite deliver on making her protagonist-or anyone else in this novel-real. In choosing to give a voice to a woman plagued by awful men-her father, King Minos her first love, the hero Theseus Dionysus, the god of wine-Saint succeeds in presenting a distinctive version of Ariadne. Writers crafting long-form narratives face the additional challenge of putting flesh on archetypes. One of the difficulties of working with familiar figures and well-known tropes is making them fresh. Poets, playwrights, and painters have been creating their own iterations of the Olympian gods for thousands of years.
Ancient Near Eastern cultures borrowed one another’s deities and transformed them to meet their own needs. A debut novelist retells timeless tales from a feminine perspective.Ĭlassical mythology endures-at least in part-because of its malleability.
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