"Kept busy by her obligations as a wife and mother, art history professor Ava Zaretsky has little time to devote to her research and writing. Now tagging along on her film-producer husband's shoot in Bulgaria for the summer, where she's mostly solo parenting her sweet son and rebellious budding tween daughter, she has a chance encounter with her fierce feminist mentor from college, which changes everything. Ava is swept up into a circle of women who reenact ancient Greco-Roman mystery rites of initiation, bringing her research to life and illuminating the story of a 5th-century-BC mother-daughter pair whose sense of female loyalty to each other and connection to the divine feminine guides Ava in her exploration of the eternal stages of womanhood."--Publisher.
Details
ISBN: 9780593700792
Physical Description:317 pages ; 25 cmprint
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:New York : Pantheon Books, 2024.
General Note: "A novel"--Cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.