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By Madeline Miller

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A daughter’s gift and a father’s curse. The bestselling author of Circe and The Song of Achilles returns with a dazzling short story reimagining the myth of Mestra, a tale of duty and devotion in Ancient Greece.

A brilliant new short story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Madeline Miller—her first new work of fiction since the publication of Circe—that vibrantly reimagines the powerful and forgotten myth of Mestra.

A cursed father, a gifted daughter

Mestra, daughter of the King of Thessaly, is granted a unique gift by Poseidon: The ability to transform herself into any being she can imagine.

Her father, on the other hand, is cursed. As punishment for disrespecting the goddess Demeter, he ...