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Arrow Throughout the Axes concludes the Odyssey of the Slave trilogy that started with the Red Maple-nominated Torn from Troy, a retelling Homer's Odyssey. The slave Alexi, now free of his Greek captors, infiltrates the Greek strongholds of the Bronze Era searching for his sister. By doing this he participates in the tales of Orestes, son of Agamemnon, as he seeks revenge for his father's murder, and of Telemachus, son of Odysseus, who lands on Ithaca, the house island of Odysseus, just in time to witness the arrival of the mystical stranger. As Alexi comes to understand the harm that the Trojan War has visited upon its victors, both he and the listener are compelled to confront an unpleasant fact, while Alexi must determine where his allegiance really is. Re-casting the Odyssey as a YA excursion, this trilogy brings traditional mythology to life in a way that traditional retellings cannot. We see what life could have been like for Bronze-Age warriors as Bowman interweaves excursion, ritual and historical depth into a realistic and powerful narrative. Listeners who've experienced pop mythology, and now want to dive deeper, will see Arrow through the Axes especially gratifying, but all listeners will enjoy this powerful excursion into the basic mythology that formed western culture.
