Drawing on ancient texts and modern archeology to reveal the trans woman’s story hidden underneath of The Iliad, Maya Deane’s Wrath Goddess Sing weaves a beautiful vision of Achilles’ vanished world, perfect for fans of Song of Achilles and the Inheritance trilogy.
Achilles has fled her home and her vicious clan to live as a woman with the kallai, the transgender priestesses of Great Mother Aphrodite. When Odysseus comes to recruit the “prince” Achilles for a war against the Hittites, she prepares to die rather than fight as a man. However, her divine mother Athena, intervenes and transforms Achilles into a woman’s body and promises her glory, power, victory in war, and a child born of her own body.
Reunited with her beloved cousin, Patroklos, and his brilliant wife, Achilles sets out to war with a vengeance. But the gods—a dysfunctional family of abusive immortals that have glutted on human sacrifices for centuries—have woven ancient schemes more blood-soaked and nightmarish than Achilles can imagine.
"Epic and triumphant." — Ava Reid, author of The Wolf and the Woodsman
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