Summer Time

Spring and summer belong to my mother, while autumn and winter belong to my husband. What is left for me? This has been the way of things for nine thousand years, ever since the deal was made. Persephone spends six months of the year underground with her husband, the king of the dead, and six months on earth with her mother, the goddess of the harvest. However, something is different this spring when she resurfaces. The land is lashed by rains, crops are growing out of season or not at all, and people are attempting to build a road through the woods, with her mother unable to stop them. The natural world is changing rapidly, and even the gods have lost control. As Demeter tries to regain her powers and fend off her daughter's husband, who wants to keep her underground permanently, Persephone joins a group of protestors and experiences a taste of freedom for the first time. Accustomed to looking up at the world from below, she realizes that there are choices she can make for herself as she looks down on the earth from the treetops with activist Snow. What will these choices mean for her mother, her husband, and the new shoots of life inside her? No Season but the Summer turns a classic myth on its head, exploring what happens when our oldest stories fail us and the rules have changed. Above all, it is a book about choice.

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