📖🧶🧩Book|Craft|Puzzle Meetup (Derry, NH) Book: Clytemnestra, Costanza Casati

We will meet as a group at the Derry Public Library. All members are welcome. We will have some snacks and a bit of general social time, with a focused activity hour: to discuss the book, work on a craft (bring your own), assemble a puzzle etc.

The book selected to discuss for this date is: Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati (published 5/2/23).

Details on Meeting at the Derry Public Library:
📍Location: 64 E Broadway, Derry, NH 03038
🅿️Parking: Spots directly in front of the library are limited so please make use of the free "East Broadway" Public Parking Lot. The entrance is between the Masonic Temple and CVS on Broadway (1 min walk to the library). We will be in Meeting Room A, which is located on the lower level (off of the Children's Department).

Book Description:
As for queens, they are either hated or forgotten. She already knows which option suits her best…

You were born to a king, but you marry a tyrant. You stand by helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods. You watch him wage war on a foreign shore, and you comfort yourself with violent thoughts of your own. Because this was not the first offence against you. This was not the life you ever deserved. And this will not be your undoing. Slowly, you plot. But when your husband returns in triumph, you become a woman with a choice.

Acceptance or vengeance, infamy follows both. So, you bide your time and force the gods' hands in the game of retribution. For you understood something long ago that the others never did. If power isn't given to you, you have to take it for yourself.

Content Warnings (from readers, on StoryGraph)
Graphic
Child death, Murder, Rape
Moderate
War, Slavery, Sexual assault
Minor
Incest, Animal death, Death of parent