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03152aam a2200517 i 4500 001 8992D898DC5011EE9AB7698352ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240307010041 008 230622t20242024nyu e 000 f eng d 020 $a 1668020858 020 $a 9781668020852 035 $a (OCoLC)1384414017 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d GCV $d Y$5 $d PX0 $d ZQP $d HQD $d OCLCO $d OCO $d IWB $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3612.Y566 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Lyon, Rachel, $d 1983- $e author. 245 10 $a Fruit of the dead / $c Rachel Lyon. 250 $a First Scribner hardcover edition March 2024. 264 1 $a New York : $b Scribner, $c 2024. 300 $a xii, 302 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld. Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, Rolo Picazo is middle-aged, divorced, magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo proffers a childcare job (and an NDA), Cory quiets an internal warning and allows herself to be ferried to his private island. Plied with luxury and opiates manufactured by his company, she continues to tell herself she's in charge. Her mother, Emer, head of a teetering agricultural NGO, senses otherwise. With her daughter seemingly vanished, Emer crosses land and sea to heed a cry for help she alone is convinced she hears. Alternating between the two women's perspectives, Rachel Lyon's Fruit of the Dead incorporates its mythic inspiration with a light touch and devastating precision. The result is a tale that explores love, control, obliteration, and America's own late capitalist mythos. Lyon's reinvention of Persephone and Demeter's story makes for a haunting and ecstatic novel that vibrates with lush abandon. Readers will not soon forget it. 650 0 $a Young women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Chief executive officers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Divorced men $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Infatuation $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Single mothers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mothers and daughters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Man-woman relationships $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Islands $v Fiction. 600 00 $a Persephone $c (Greek deity) $v Fiction. 600 00 $a Demeter $c (Greek deity) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mythological fiction. 650 0 $a Psychological fiction. 650 0 $a Adaptations. 650 0 $a Novels. 941 $a 8 952 $l SCPC074 $d 20240410010540.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409045451.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20240409012831.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240402012825.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20240402012030.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240402011833.0 952 $l JSPB572 $d 20240323013030.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20240307012320.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8992D898DC5011EE9AB7698352ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search