Immortal Venus

Megan Eston’s marriage is on the rocks. She hopes her short tour of Italy will be a reprieve from months of tears and mutual accusations; she doesn’t expect it to resolve anything.

As she views the “Birth of Venus” in the Uffizi Gallery, a woman she meets there remarks on the coincidence that her name—Megan—means “sea-born” in Gaelic, and that Botticelli’s Venus is shown rising from the sea, where the goddess was conceived. This feels doubly significant to Megan since she’s a Pisces … a wate...