Callisto

Callisto leaves her father's court the morning before the arrangement is completed. She goes up the mountain. She does not come back down.For five years she learns to hunt, to breathe at altitude, to love without naming it. Then something comes up the mountain wearing a face she trusts. Using everything the body has learned as the key to the door.She does not tell Artemis. She tells herself the reasons. She holds what the body is now carrying the way she holds everything, which is without putting it down.This is a story about what survives. About a father who arranges his daughter as a transaction, a god who does the same thing with a different name, and the architecture they share. About a woman who refuses to stop breathing.Sapphic literary fiction. Ancient Greece. For readers of Madeline Miller and Pat Barker. Read more