{"product_id":"the-children-of-jocasta","title":"The Children of Jocasta","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Reinterprets two of Sophocles' Theban plays, Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone. . . . the alternating structure proves powerful.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A passionate and gripping account of a famously dysfunctional family. Haynes balances a fresh take on the material with a deep love for her sources, wearing her scholarship with grace, and giving new voice to the often-overlooked but fascinating Jocasta and Ismene.\"--Madeline Miller, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Song of Achilles\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCirce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003ePandora's Jar \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eStone Blind\u003c\/i\u003e returns with a powerful feminist mythological retelling of Oedipus and Antigone from the perspectives of the women the myths overlooked.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen you have grown up as I have, there is no security in not knowing things, in avoiding the ugliest truths because they can't be faced . . . Because that is what happened the last time, and that is why my siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJocasta is just fifteen when she is told that she must marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met. Her life has never been her own, and nor will it be, unless she outlives her strange, absent husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsmene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home. Since the day of her parents' tragic deaths a decade earlier, she has always longed to feel safe with the family she still has. But with a single act of violence, all that is about to change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the turn of these two events, a tragedy rooted in Greek myth is set in motion. But not as we've known it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51942912262375,"sku":"9780063414006","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_3bc11f1c-b074-45b9-97d0-a8a17eb58625.jpg?v=1775272076","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/the-children-of-jocasta","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}