The Daughters: A Novel

An electrifying new novel from Leslie Jamison, one of our most beloved contemporary voices: the epic story of three women connected by the haunting power of an ancient myth

Every monster has two mothers-the woman who bore him, and the pain that shapes him. They raise him together.

Knossos, 1550 BC: Newly wed to the tyrannical King Minos, the witch queen Pasiphaë makes a dangerous bargain. After giving birth to the legendary Minotaur, a creature she can barely fathom, she must wrestle with wha...