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2 months ago | 
electricliterature.com | Jo Lou |Rachel Lyon
There is something particularly annoying about chaotic white girls, isn’t there. I say this as a recovering chaotic white girl myself. The heady cocktail of privilege and self-pity, the culturally approved beauty, the patriarchal casualty. During my harrowing yet transformative early weeks and months of early sobriety, I was compelled to read all the books in this problematic genre that I could get my hands on. It was research. It was work.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Christina Bergonzo |Rachel Lyon |Zvi Kelman |Thomas Schmidt
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Rachel Lyon |Clement Yong
Fruit Of The DeadBy Rachel LyonFiction/Scribner/Paperback/300 pages/$20.52/Amazon SG (amzn.to/4cAYkpq)3 stars“I’m looking for a man in finance. Trust fund, 6’5”, blue eyes,” goes the latest in vogue TikTok hook. Whether it is invoked in ironic jest or, equally likely, with faux irony and so, some sincerity, the age-old aspiration of women marrying into wealth appears to be having a new summer.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Rachel Lyon |Elisabeth Cook
BookBrowse: An exuberant retelling of the Demeter and Persephone myth that takes a sympathetic view of early adult malaise.
In Rachel Lyon's Fruit of the Dead, Cory Ansel, a directionless high school graduate, has had all her college applications rejected.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | Rachel Lyon
You probably remember the Greek myth of Persephone. Having been abducted by Hades and made queen of the underworld, Persephone makes the mistake of eating pomegranate seeds and consequently is compelled to return to the underworld for several months each year. During those months, Persephone's mother, Demeter, goddess of the harvest, is in mourning, and the earth mourns along with her, causing winter to return.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Rachel Lyon
Carlotta Brentan and Joy Osmanski, both talented and experienced narrators, are a fantastic match for this updated and very American retelling of the myth of Persephone and Demeter. It's set in New York and on a private island over the course of one summer. Brentan voices Cory Ansel, an aimless 18-year-old. Alternate chapters feature the perspective of Cory's mother, Emer, who is at times career obsessed, at times child obsessed. She is voiced by Osmanski.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
zip06.com | Rachel Lyon
Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon Greek mythology echoes through this modern-day retelling, a reminder that we could easily fall victim to the same challenges and vices. With deep explorations of mother/daughter relationships; feeling like you know better and immediately regretting the thought; and life choices that are hard to face to until you’re in too deep, this is a satisfying ride with a curious ending. Rhi, R.J. Julia Booksellers, Madison
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Leslie Jamison |Rachel Lyon
As soon as I read Rachel Lyon’s riveting and lush new novel Fruit of the Dead—propulsive in my hands and heart, an intricate jigsaw of feeling—I had the unnerving sense of subterranean kinship between our two books, as if her novel, and my memoir, Splinters, had somehow been having a conversation without our realizing it, in some dark back room of our psyches.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Rachel Lyon
What to Read Find Your Next Book March Releases Critics' Reviews Editors' Choice 100 Notable Books What to Read Find Your Next Book March Releases Critics' Reviews Editors' Choice 100 Notable Books Rachel Lyon's novel "Fruit of the Dead" updates the Greek myth with a pharma tycoon who lures an aimless slacker to his private island.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
booklistonline.com | Rachel Lyon
Mar. 2024. 320p. Scribner, $28 (9781668020852); e-book (9781668020876).
REVIEW.
First published February 15, 2024 (Booklist).
Lyon’s second novel, following Self-Portrait with Boy (2018), is a retelling of the story of Demeter and Persephone shaped for the opioid-crisis era. As her post-graduation stint as a camp counselor comes to an end, 18-year-old Cory dreads returning home to New York and her disappointed single mother, Emer.
