For readers of Madeline Miller's Circe and Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls.

He won the war. He lost twenty years. Now he's standing in his own house, and no one knows who he is.

Odysseus returns to Ithaca disguised as a beggar. His palace is overrun by a hundred suitors demanding his wife choose a new husband. His son, now twenty, has never met him. His dog is the only one who recognizes him -- and dies at his feet.

Penelope has one week left. She has spent years weaving and unweaving a shroud to buy time, but the trick has been discovered. The suitors are done waiting.

Telemachus has crossed the sea looking for his father. What he found instead is a truth no one wanted to tell him: his father may have chosen not to come home.

Now all three must face what twenty years of war, silence, and survival have done to them -- and decide if what remains of their family is worth fighting for.

The Odyssey is a gripping modern retelling that strips Homer's epic down to its raw, human core. No gods. No monsters. No magic. Just a broken family, a house under siege, and a reckoning two decades in the making.

"What does it mean to come home after twenty years? Not the mythical version. Not the heroic version. The human version."

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• Publication Date: February 8, 2026
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• Print Length: 145 Pages
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