Circe

I read a kid-ified version of the Odyssey around 4^th or 5^th grade and I became hooked on mythology. I don't remember if I ever read the Odyssey itself, but I did remember Circe turning Odysseus' men into pigs. This book is a retelling of the Odyssey through Circe's eyes, from her birth to the Titan Helios, to her development as a witch, to her exile on the island that Odysseus visits on his ill-fated journey. Like Miller's first novel, The Song of Achilles, it's a terrific book. There's so much more than the basic story of Odysseus, drawing from other sources for Circe and building on that with wonderful prose and world-building. This book won The Kitchies: Red Tentacle Award for 2018 and was nominated for several others.

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