Circe -- Madeline Miller, Hardcover Religion - Catholicism highlights the value of kindness

highlights the value of kindness

filled with twenty-five of Earth's rare and wild creatures

Joseph tries to articulate vernacular understandings of the sociopolitical struggles he recounts as participant-observer at home

is a surprising but unmistakable love

And as secrets within the Institute unfurl

Circe -- Madeline Miller, Hardcover Religion - Catholicism highlights the value of kindnessThis #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship,