Ariadne: A Novel

Not for him the indignities of feeling;

The stories of Perseus did not allow for a Medusa with a story of her own.

No longer was my world one of brave heroes; I was learning all too swiftly the women’s pain that throbbed unspoken through the tales of their feats.

What I did not know was that I had hit upon a truth of womanhood: however blameless a life we led, the passions and the greed of men could bring us to ruin, and there was nothing we could do.