Set in antiquity

Annabel Lyon’s Imagining Ancient Women (2011)

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To begin, Annabel Lyon turns to books. You know you're in the hands of a writer who truly loves storytelling when that happens, right? Sure, she's making a point: "literary fiction is uniquely poised to perform an important ethical function in our lives -- namely to teach us compassion". But

Annabel Lyon’s Imagining Ancient Women (2011)Buried In Print2014-03-18T12:07:07-04:00

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Annabel Lyon’s The Sweet Girl (2012)

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Annabel Lyon says that she knew, almost immediately upon beginning to write The Golden Mean, that she would be writing the other half of its story. That was "a very male book...all male characters...about warfare and public life and politics and rationality [and] science, all the things that Aristotle represented".*

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