Protectress

<p class=ql-align-justify><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Protectress</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a hybrid poetry-prose novella offering a risky take on the legend of Medusa. With stunning economy of words and a delicate hand </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Protectress</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> provokes us to think about the feminist identity and the power of compassion. Readers who fell deeply for Emily Wilson's translation of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Odyssey</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Margaret Atwood's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Penelopiad</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Madeleine Miller's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Circe</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Emily St. John Mandel's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Station Eleven</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Maria Dahvana Headley's translation of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Beowulf</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and Toby Barlow's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sharp Teeth</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> will find themselves enamoured with </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Protectress</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p>