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In Greek misconception, Alcestis is known as the perfect good wife; she enjoyed her husband a lot that she passed away to save lots of his life and was sent to the underworld in his place. On this poetic and vividly-imagined debut, Katharine Beutner gives voice to the woman behind the perfect, bringing to life the world of Mycenaean Greece, a world peopled by capricious gods, where royal women are restricted to the palace grounds and transferred as belongings from dad to partner. Alcestis tells of a child years spent with her sisters in the bedchamber where her mother died giving birth to her and of her marriage at the age of 15 to Admetus, the young ruler of Pherae, a guy she barely recognizes, who's kind but whose heart and soul belongs to a god. She also tells the area of the storyline that's never been told: What happened to Alcestis in the three days she spent in the underworld before being rescued by Heracles? In the realm of the inactive, Alcestis falls deeply in love with the goddess Persephone and discovers the real horror and beauty of fatality.
