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Goddess of Yesterday

by Caroline B. Cooney

Identity and survival in a mythic world

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Identity and survival in a mythic world

Anaxandra’s life is reshaped by successive upheavals: taken from her birth island, left alone after a pirate attack, and brought to Sparta under another girl’s identity. The familiar figures of Helen, Menelaus, Paris, and Aeneas place her personal struggle within the larger conflict between Sparta and Troy. The description foregrounds questions of belonging and self-invention alongside the danger of navigating a world where gods and royalty shape human lives. Anaxandra’s effort to survive gives the Greek-myth setting a child’s perspective on identity, courage, and what it means to call a place home.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in Greek mythology retellings
  • Readers who enjoy stories about survival and changing identity
  • Readers curious about Helen and the events surrounding the Trojan War

Themes

SurvivalIdentity and self-inventionBelonging and homeGreek mythology and the Trojan War

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Book overview

Anaxandra is taken from her birth island at age 6 by King Nicander to be a companion to his crippled daughter, Princess Callisto. Six years later, her new island is sacked by pirates and she is the sole survivor. Alone with only her Medusa figurine, she reinvents herself as Princess Callisto when Menelaus, great king of Sparta, lands with his men. He takes her back to Sparta with him where Helen, his beautiful wife, does not believe that the red-headed child is Princess Callisto. Although fearful of the half-mortal, half-goddess Helen, Anaxandra is able to stay out of harm's way--until the Trojan princes Paris and Aeneas arrive. Paris and Helen's fascination with each other soon turns to passion and plunges Sparta and Troy into war. Can Anaxandra find the courage to reinvent herself once again, appease the gods, and save herself?

In Caroline B. Cooney's epic tale of one girl's courage and will to survive, Anaxandra learns that home is where you make it and identity goes deeper than just your name.
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