By:
Madeline Miller
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Circe is a feminist retelling of the life of the Greek sorceress. The daughter of the Titan sun god Helios and the naiad Perse, Circe is unloved by her parents and siblings. After falling in love with a mortal, Glaucos, she transforms him into a god using magical flowers. She then turns the nymph Scylla, with whom he falls in love, into a six-headed monster. After confessing to her sorcery, she is exiled to the remote island of Aiaia.
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