Mestra - A Short Shory

<p><b>A brilliant new short story from the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Madeline Miller</b>—<b>her first new work of fiction since the publication of <i>Circe</i></b>—<b>that vibrantly reimagines the powerful and forgotten myth of Mestra.</b></p><p><b><i>A cursed father, a gifted daughter</i></b></p><p>Mestra, daughter of the King of Thessaly, is granted a unique gift by Poseidon: the ability to transform into any being she can imagine.</p><p>Her father, on the other hand, is cursed: As punishment for disrespecting the goddess Demeter, he is in possession of an unnatural, insatiable hunger.</p><p>Devoted Mestra suggests using her new gift to help her father. But if his hunger is bottomless, how much will he take from her? Soon she must decide: Will she keep helping her father survive, or finally break free?</p><p>A jewel-like tale of human fallibility, <i>Mestra</i> confirms Madeline Miller as our high priestess of mythology.</p>